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Vol60, ——_zo.40 seventh Avenue, New York, New York, June 24, 1905. Two Copies Five Dollars. No, 37,
“YHAT TRUE LOVE IS LIKE. |
he county, when at last ft became ‘known,
Yona ail Possibility, of doubt, that Squire ith:
— erford’s will, made in favor of his granddaughter,
po be jennie Ls beaut. had mysteriously, disap) peared.
- hat such a document bad existed no one at
Cone, Mollie, sit beside me - > =
And let us talic them o'er,
we've been married now
They're meting Hg {sro score,
any tri
tte 2
Weve met the My
That came satke
Autlove has been so Pog, dear,
They lightly seemed to fall.
“And, Mollie ‘st me tell you,
True love
“It gives sweet ifesrance “vihile it
& ter just after her marriage, and. by “means of
Ks WN which everything went to his nephew Frederick
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‘As ‘quickly as possible, after hearing of bis
sudden accession to forturie, Capt. Erroll, throw:
{og .up, bis commission In the ‘army, returned
to England to take possession of ‘his’ property
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ives > ‘ and poor mamma, after having been brought up
In sunshine and In shower, A to. regard bers self” as the future, mistress -of the
ena.
AY only plausible explanation of the will’s
nagar disappearance lay In the supposition
aving is mind with
Oi ‘it is white as silvs
nd yours is mixed with gray,
My Jat ae now more beautiful
LE
EE
Ait
SS
eat
al pe
Ras ‘ Inst have ‘destroyed it during ‘his last finest.
J Than on that Summer day AS \ Whether this explanation proved satista
Seng in the garden a the world or not, it never satisfied my mot
Beside tl . ce Et Hnguished her belief that ber gran
father fully int her to have th ert
the roses red,
tou whispered, Yes Love you true,
You only will | wed."
tion that would be hers when be was &
And, Molle let me tall you, My mother was obliged to abdicate her post
» True love is like the fon, and, she secured a situation as governess, in
fa ot a vulzar-minded, overbear
“oti that turns the des night woman, who, together with the tribe of ill-trained,
the welcome d: misch{évous’ children, contriv ho Ite
of the young governess a burden to her for two
mortal years. :
end of that time she met my father, a
Teoeay forty years a Le
young officer fi a arching regiment, and io less
Since first here, side by
Wesat and planned our ‘atu life,
And you were then a bride,
Ow children, now, are sown and gone,
The nestlings flown
day,
te, me tet yous
i‘
an
ott “cee found and. eeows ‘no ae se
oun
> Whatever time way bring.
toite deat et the order retin th that the women and
‘ni, now, together waiting, chiidven ‘were to be nd.
Wesee the day decline,
Ad son _miss your Toving voice,
Orelse, dear, you'll miss mi
bd icine, ‘when the summons rs cones,
umbers; and Lieut. Kendrick, with many
others, died nobly ‘that day, fal ‘
alls for you or-me Sc eaving bis widow: with’ three children “to
pain mute ‘iet— brid Up an means terribly inade
And, then, eternit; He In her quiet, uncomplaining way, mat
re a ‘Motte, ia me ell you, a ti it ir herself to the task. We lived in London, and al-
Vat though ‘she never returned. to" Devonshire, shi
le love i ke, 4 ial continued to hear a litte of what went on there.
ov et tay an nt urn of ber son and his wite from India,
ls a ae brig rg c ya Mrs. Erroll, my mother learned, went back t
hight, 5 Bursting with excitement, I proceeded F NOt ae mistresa this’ time-—Dtee.
Its course is never run., to speak. roll Junior being @ woman id permit no
a it
quite alon
LOVE, rere
By BERTHA M. CLAY
duthor of * Wife in Name Only,” “For Honor's Sake," “Dora Thorne,”
“Thrown on the World,” ‘‘A True Magdalen,” ete., etc.
en 3}
during: whieh We poor iiite: mother, Hiving’ het
{ollsome life among her children, recdived no td:
fire. ‘Then came the news that
Mdead—had ‘died suddenly: ‘and
on, looking ‘into, her attra, it
she had made rather
~ c Teave, but ‘wh:
“ey ” i i xception of the old house at
Pray allow me.” The stranger advances and politely assists her to alight. a exception, of the old house, at
ico of which she had been
* a ne, habit of re for the performance of
CHAPTER I. girl, but I would like to see the ghost that would | child—a merry, light-hearted girl, who, greatly | by some member of her late husband's family, a be sald, as the will worded it,
pee me out of any house I had once made|to the grief and indignation of her father, ran | was Deepdene—not at that time the ruin i pas for the repose ’ of the testatrix's most miserable
A GLOOMY DAY, "By a mind to live in wish able | may q Tom ,toneel, with a worthless adventurer | since become, though even then a poor place for a | and sioful soul.
? Well, Lesley, I can you were, named Dalton, who in less than five yea woman like Mrs, Erroll, who. had been so long | Deepder ngely eni
toes London ever ‘smile? - That fs my mental to impare a tiie of Chae allaut Ypirit’ to come | tho time of thelt marriage broke her ‘heart, ‘and | neous omed to Tuie over an estabilshment iike the | motber, coupled ‘witha prayer’ for
} i si T look out on the gloomy scene. eh of @ house,” returns Len, in all | killed himself by, his reckless dissipations, uire’s. dome’ Gokbewe wrong Der vou ker fa the.
A saffron fog bangs over the gray buildings. sent aes. The only child resulting from this ill-starred Time rolled on. Frederick, Erroll, who was with the strict proviso that the house shou!
he ts lamps are lighted, Dut they only give Way dg you say that sk. martlage was my mother, who was scarcely three | more than ten years my mother's senior, chose the | never sold or permitted to go ot
h ly f the most | years old et pte ume ot hee parents ce Geath. On eat a a Broke easton, pad ore a India with his | possession, and that everythin:
joubt wheth- | hearing the had ried hile his mother, | left as nearly as possible as it was then standing.
yurage would stand the test of. never Forgiven “hie dauetier that ‘tated si marriage Gisappotite ‘a ‘her ‘arebitious ‘ropes tor ‘him im, shut To poor mamma the possession proved
e. ula and who had previously a will, leaving erself up in the solitude of Deepdene, holding | uselers one, | Circumstances render
" everything he possessed to mae nephew, the tae intercourse with the world, and no com- | possible for her to live in it herself; her fi
'Not Ply, indignantly of a widowed sister who had always ‘ived with munication of any kind with the inhabitants ot idea, as it could not be sold, was to let it, just
Ushioned boarding house where three ‘ery though IT must own that I afr him at oo Priory since the death of bis wife—} the Priory. as it stood, thinking bow useful the money
tent people are planning the future. Of fire, for instance, ‘tnd bur alars, oar took the child to bis home, simply, as he ne, my mother and her grandfather things | would be if a tenant could be found. Unfortu-
hie brilliant fut 3 ight tloularly the sort that, not content with robbing | said, out Es “charity, and treated her at first with mm very smoothly, Of boarding schools and | nately, no tenant ever was found to remain in it
Hee ee eras cena | he house, Slaughter the inhabltants in thelr beds.| something very little short of contempt—a feol- Ehooimbsteete the squire would ot hear, so| beyond a few months. One after another the
he expre: yn the faces of my I certa! aid ing that gradually gave way, as time passed, to ‘a governess, and had his darling edu-| people who took it, tempted most likely by the.
" ait gravity and emphasis, one of deep affection; and co a mere dependent Chen ae ‘tom me. i rent mamma's agent was directed to ask for
on a and aentioe dount oe became the This must have been a very happy period in moved out again, giving no very- definite or
very \d gar tie oid man's heart—aj poor ‘mamma's life, fattered and deferred to as siultactory reason why they did so.
Sango thet vfoved “anything but veatiatactory wo | She was by. every new her as the old house was dull, “lonely, dani: tbe
7 the squire’s sister, Mrs. Erroll, who soon began | squire’s heiress; ‘and. net and spoiled by her chimueys smoked it was alter ether too far
to fear th nat in little paith Dalton she saw a eet sports loving. gia efanafather, who long before she | away from ‘everything. Sucl a tew of the
many remarkable e: for ber whom had long gince learned to tof trol ther on the back of a| many complaints ‘allegea Suainet ity and in vala
ioe your being the very identical | look upon. ee the mute master of the Priory. @ tay wage er = Te to bounds almost as} mamma, pressed for money by the increasing x
send own Into Devonshire to tackle | | From the first hour of their mooting Mrs. ‘Brroll | fearlessly ashe ode himselt. penses of her family, lowered the rent ftom’ tina
appeal 10 have coricelved a secret dread and dis- Unfortunately, it did not last; for when mam- | to time, until tte, sum asked for te tat oT mere
well tor Len to tease—it is an old | like of, Ber Brothers orphan grandchild, thor ough ma was about nineteen, the oyu! uire was kaker it trifle. No ould be found to take it; and
t vnat will happen, he must have | so caretully Ww: e feeling concealed that, for of w! a ‘y first | from that time. forth the old house has been fall-
y would be enough to 5: joke!" But ‘in spite of io mer on my | tinge, suspected it. ing, into ruin and decay. teps of any kind
Courage, I really” oa't belleve that, Tam so mu nwas a good dissembler—a woman whose ince mamma's steps of an:
fale Derwon in the world, and Tam afraid of a coward, though ale nce, Tam afraid | looks and words were well under control: but the have been taken with Teeatd to its and, but, for
, have taken on a little of the somber tone fnice wheres the girl wi who" Tent? time came _at last when her envy and jealousy of our present ‘urgent need of money: that
any eect when I begin to draw attention to T gut to ome back to the old house at Deep- | the little Bal h Krew too strong for restraint, ‘and fas been created by a long.and dangerous illness
dene—that one solitary piece of property that we | quarrels pron aches ensued between the trom wi relet h Len is ‘only ‘ust beginuing to recover
have ever possessed, or are ever likely to possess, | brother ‘and sister weed Erew so violent at last we is robable we should never have thought of
ys Len, breaking into one of the} but which, so far as I can remember, has never | as to result in ‘pen rupt it
uses, “it it would not be possible to do| yet brought us in anything beyond the very bar-| Although tractable a ‘ay going almost to a This fines of Leonard's has proved an almost
wmutbing with that old house at Deepden ‘As | Te, honor of possession. fault In most things, the squire was not the man|to the sick man, who lingered through many overwhelming calamity for us, not his
Il ": pdene. s Neither my sister Adelaide nor I bave ever| to be dictated to here his affections were con- | months of painful suffering, was pronounced by ork alone that has been at a standstill Addit
remarks, our funds are getting rather low, seen it, though Len bas pald it more than one cerned ; ro a, eran much Mrs. Erroll’s indig- | the aoctors | as beyond ail praise. And ‘at taraings have also falled u: During the time of
tit we could get a tenant for Deepdene we'd | Visit. | We hve always tived in London, and 0 sation, toradinit the fact that be ted | fest the poor ola gentleman paseed away, Gur auelety she tried in vain Yo amatel, whittle
wet ot the one ” re far too limited to admit of any ‘such changed Nis vind with regard to the final disposal | with his ster on one side of him, and ‘hie poor, time and thought for ber writing, and the result
Gxiravagant flights ae. country excursions, But | of ‘Bis property, rightened, rtbroken little | ‘granddaughter, | is there are no nice, convenient Nitle checks trom
a There is a forced cheerfulness | for all that, we have heard so much about that| To compensate his nephew for any disappoint- | clinging in en “agony of grief to bis hand, on tho editors dropping. in upon eis, tow, need
i igi that’ is not conviyeing. It dies away | lonely, deserted old house, which fell by such an| ment that might have arisen through his change | other. them so badly; while ure, on
as he once more raises his eyes to the| odd chance into the family possession so many | of plans, Mr. Rutherford ong, everyting, aoe Bis From the hour of the squire’s death a marked, | which so many hopes were bull, sand ‘that was:
iste ‘and catches a glimpse of the yellow fos years ago, that it has long since come to take | power 2 promote the 0's though almost indefinable change, came over Mrs.| to have been ready for the opening of the Royal
Se os high rani in our minds, along with all the ro- | spending thousands of pounds with a liweral ‘hand Erroll's manner toward mamma, who was far| Academy, stands untouched on the easel, while
"eau hone gee ‘oats sadly, ‘Unfortunately, we | mantic, mysterious old houses we have read of in| on his Sane ation and ‘ahal Taunch in life, tt as} too much overwhelmed with grief to notice it,{ he daubs away at things that will bring us in a
bi ne for tt lat. om bed a letter from Warden | n ttle Faith alt a orew to womanhood hee made untit aroused from her sorrow by the startling | few pounds on which fo. live, +
worning, and from what he telis me, the old} And there certainly is both mystery as well as | no sec ention to make bis’ daughter's | intelligence that Mr, Rutherford’s last will, b; Not that we are ‘aulte without hope of better
te appears Mo ua ve a bad name. The fact of romans connected with Deepdene, to explain | child tho a the Priory. means of whicl the Priory, together with the | day: We are still young and sanguine gnoush
PAMer fs Mat, tbe place as, stood, empty so | which 1 must go back to the time af my mother's | ° Finding "Winposelble to, shake this, determtoa- reat bulk of that gentleman's large property, was | to voetieve in the splendid possibilities of the f
cA fiat the rusties of the nelghborhood have | grandfather. the then owner of a fine houve| tion, “Sirs Erroll aiuitted her brother's house tn | known 'e been lett to her, was not forth- | tu ‘Of course Addie 1s to ‘some
ead the report that itt haunted “, Gnd estato fn one of the most-pictureaque. Marte ‘of | anger and chi to live at a place coming. fay that will take the world by ‘storia and: Lens
is vel ponvense that fs" 1 repl ‘People | South Devon, ealled the Prioi of her own some few ‘rolles “ais fast from tho| The greatest surprise and, consternation were | great picture, when it is finished. is to be the
leve in ghosts these ys. I'm ogly a Mamma’s mother was Squire Rutherford’s only | Priory. This house, which had heen left to ber | produced, not only at the Priory, but throughout! picture of the year; and if I could only manage e
