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THE WEEKLY STAR.
Vol. VH.--NO. 4.
John M. Edge,
anonrEr at
—-^Doxtglais»'<7-i lle ’ * C«.
WILL practice In all the courts and
promptly attend to all business en
tustedtohis care.
T. S. BUTLSR
Tlovl-feio F’ninter
DOUGLASVILLE, - GA
WIL Ii make old furniture look ns w H *’]
new. Give him atrial in this line. Wil
Ulso do house carpentering work,
B. G. G HIGGS,
A T I 0 R N E Y A T L A W
Douglasville, (reorgia.
. JP. S. Verdery,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE at, HUDSON & EDGE’S DRUG
STORE, Where he can be found at ail
hours except when professionally engaged,
pcfial attention given io (ihionicca eb, an<
S eecially all eases that have been treated and
nncuHM*. jai)l3 AO,ly.
Hespeciiufly otter my servic -s as physi
„ 1 dan and surgeon, to the people of Doug
svilluund vicinity. AU calls will be atten-
J d promptly. Can be found at the drtig store
Hudson Edge, during the day and at.
ght at my ren’ileuce at the bouse recently
THOMAS W. 1 ATI!AM,
Attorney at law
F.RIDIRN, pEOI GIA.
Will practice in all the Courts
both State anil Federal.
Special attention given to suits
ii ainst Railroads and other Corpo
rations. ill attend regularly the
Superior and other courts ol Douglas
county.
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Ms IS W s t-
Wll pT OB
HO | la
w BEST TOMIC. ?
Th I* wiefllcino, ownblnlng Iron with pur*
V*g*l*hle tonic*, quickly and <x mulctaly
C'HTva DvwpcpidtM lnVUil*ati»M, Wenk non*,
I Hiwwrei nl*nd, MalariutUMlla wad Fuv*r*,
MM* WCICI?*. t
It I* an unftdlinff rMiuwly for Dixit*** of th*
*jt "< 7 *a*swtblc "for Diwaaoa peculiar to
W»n**». a»d all who load sedentary live*.
It do* notlnjure th* teeth. catuv hea<laeb*.nr
nrodu** tvwttipation— olhtr !rvn mtdmntt ilo.
Jt<«sri*h»«*nd purlfl** th*bl<xxl,*tiniutate«
Ds**np*trt*. aid* th* mlniltatten of food. r*-
H*v<* Heart burn and Balchtug, and stnHigth
«4« te« wuscle* Wil Win,
For Int*nnlU*ut F*v*ni . Laadtude, leek of
Katrgy. *e., it ha* ne equal.
iilr Th* K«nnln« ha* above trad* mark and
irund red lin*a on wrapper. Take no other.
*.< x. «*., FiLTOMma, hk
By the nu of TToatetter’s Stomach Ritters
the haggard appearance of the oounte*
name* and tallovneM of dyspeptic* arc ,
enpvtaMed by a healthier look, and aa the
food ie MahuUaled, the body aequir** *ub
•taac*. Appetite Is restored, and the nerv
eu* system refreshed with mu oh ue*d*d
ilnmko, through th* ua* of this medicine,
which in also b«®*fl»l»l to persona of a
rh*nmatie tendency, and an Ineaimutblo
preventive of saver and ecu*.
For hate by *1• Druggists and Dealers
generally.
A TALE OF TWO CRUTCHES.”
A Well Known (itlzeu of Atlanta
Lays Down his Cratches.
I have only a few words to say, which are to
Mate that I have been confined to niy bed flu
two months with what w.w called Nervw.i*
Rheumatism, or Semites. I was only rmanied
to hobble about occasionally by ths u«a of
-- - JUJi.I lu thle coiutrtiou I cutntnenoed
toe n«e of R B W., four bottles of which cn
hhlrd me to dlei ard the use of my crutches
and attend to business. I hud prerloue".,' u.«ed i
al! well rwmnß.idi.inietlk'itw a wiUiont relief.
It has »>eeu over two inontoc aim* «Mbg (
D. It. H., and 1 evttenlet my sell a peuuatitnily >
nured tmu>.
J. P. DAVIS.
Atiauta, G* (WtM Rud )
FRIGHTFUL MASAL CATARRH. ’
<rtk " Pieces cf Gone.
**• bv tour years I have liven «flttv*vd with a
wy Rmabteeattio cwunh of R»e h« nd. ;
WriHe lias its nature bcm that when 1 b -w
my lyme small pt< cea*f b,«to* w «i!«l fie. scntti
rnatv out >'f my 5 .*« I n w
jdihlwjfv wa* oopioim e-ul at ttmea
*gy.>ive. Fy M.vxt awe- w imimre that *
thy g< octal health was |piv»«Vl*rp»is <l, w<fu
ItoW xujwvlv Kh'i wor*» tiMVcwn
-r' *” Jbwwcui.u* v»O! *fV*d without
eel.f, m»KI I begah th* W 1 ’ B!k R , and j
f, -thrvv bottles acted alwax-i- l»k« tMCte- *®ee
their use i*>< a <ynp»i-m and 1
Tkil tit evevy way WWte tm H attic* I
am«» <<d cURTsst t>! .Mi.iiiia snA c-t-r to ai
m>»t any i«m* lo iUa ■< Ku Ar strop*." «-"t ni«We
' parVvC.a A t-‘ 1.. M ... :s’, w -• ■' ■-
of my case. • • ? - *
*7 Mas Shvat. _ J
«»*i:ai v : on a-pt K-a t. *-1i» t»tvw
siMc,l mmi wwi nod wwti to - »'»x ttet shdh* |
4tw*sun*e biskv-y et , w
tul mH Us*ts-1» *-i. »•>* Mu--a- ’a -a
MtattMH* *. <h« uw «d h B *■ sysX'.eM |
K»ir«r'»r<-' '*.»■« urip a-.
«“ »*< <» *», '-astw*- m tta-
£’ ’-.M r*'*»*do» Aiw/yx ■* , }
tULM CO. ‘ T
MARGERH ROMANCE
Uy THOMAS HABDY.
CHAPTER XV. I
Ssx ng that Jim lived five miles from the
Margery was rather surprised, and
felt a slight sinking of the heart,
when her new acquaintance appeared at
her door so soon as the evening of the fol
lowing Monday. She asked Marg ry to
walk out with her, which the young
woman readily did.
“I am come at once,” said the widow,
breathlessly, as soon as they were in the
lane, “for it is so exciting that I cai?.’';
keep it. I must tell it to somebody, if.
only to a bird, or a cat, or a garden snail.”
“What is it.” as.cel hes companion
eagerly.
“I’ve pulled grass from my husband’s
grave to cure it, vrove the blades into true
lover’s-knots, took off my shoes upon the
sods but avast! my shipmate.”
“Upon the sod—why;”
“To feel the damp earth he’s in, an-2
make the sense of it ent -r my soul. But
no. It has swelled to a head; he. is going to
meet nie at the Yeomanry review. ”
“The master lime-burner f”
The wi low nodded.
“When is it to be?”
“To morrow, He looks so lovely in his
accoutrements’ He’s such a splendid sol
dier; that was the last straw that kindled
rny soul to say yes. He s home from Cas
terbridge for a night between drills.” con
tinued Mrs. Peach. “He goes back to
morrow morning forth > review, and tvhen
it's over he’s going to meet me. • ’ • But,
guide my heart, there he is!”
Her exclamation ha I rise in the su Iden
appearance of u bridiant red uniform
through the trees, and the tramp of a
horso < arrying the wearer there >f. In
another half-rninuto the military gen lo
nian, whoever he might be, would have
turned the corner and faced them.
“He’d better not see me; he’ll think I
know to much,” said Margery, precipitate
ly. “I ll go up here.”
The widow, wh >se thoughts had evidently
been of the same cast, s eui .xl much relieved
to see Margery disappear in the plantation,
in the midst ot a spring chorus of birds.
Once among the trees, Margery turned her
head, and before she could see the rider’s
person she recognized the horse as Tony,
the lightest of three that Jim and his
partner owned, for the purpose of carting
out limo to their customers.
Jim. then, had joined the Yeomanry since
his astrungement from Margery. A man
who had worn the Queen’s uniform for
wpfwpatray'i only could not bo expe.-ted to
look ns if it w r» a part o? Ute in
the manner of I >ng traine I soldi ri; but hu
was a well-formed young fellow, and of an*,
age wiieii few p isicions come amiss’* yuo*
the capacity to adapt himself to
eiri-uimlAnt-wr-j,
Meeting tKffb ushing MrsTTeach (whom
Margery in her mind sternly denied the
right to blush at all , Jim alighted and
moved on With her, probhbly at Mrs.
Peach’s own suggestion: so that what tiny
said, how long they re naine I together, anil
how they parted, Margery knew not. She
might, have known smn ■ of these things by
waiting; but the presence of Jim had bred
in her heart a sudden disgust for the wid
ow, and a general sen o of discomfiture.
She went away in an opposite direction,
turning her he id and saying to the uncon
scious Jim, “There’s a tine sod in pickle
for you. my gentleman, if you carry out
that pretty scheme!”
Jim s military C9ii;> had decidedly aston
islie I her. What he might do next she
could not conjecture. The i lea of his
doing anything su'liciently brilliant to ar
rest her attention would have seemed lu
dicrous had not Jim, by entering the
Yeomanry, revealed a capacity for daa
eling exploits which made it unsafe to
predicate any liniitati n t» his powers.
Margery was now absolutely excit'd.
The sly daring of the wretched Jim tn
bursting into scarlet amazed her as much
as his doubtful a -qiiaintanoeship with the
deiuonstr.-it.ive Mrs. Peach. To go to that
review, to wat -h the pair, to eclipse Mrs.
Peach in bril.ian y, t > meet and pass them
lu withering contempt—4f she only could
de it I But. alas! she was & forsaken
woman. “»f the Banal were alive, or in
Engl.-.nd," she said to herself (for sometimes
she thought he might possibly be alive ,
“and ha were to taxe me to this review,
wouldn't I show that forward Mrs. Peach
what n lady is like, and k-.-ep am.mg the
select company, ana not mix wit,ptMcom
mon people at all.”
It might at first sig't bethought that the
best eourte lor Mnrgv.y at t!;is juncture
would h ive lie -n to go to Jim, and uip the
intrigue in the bud without further scru
ple. But her own de larati >n in after days
was that whoever could say that was far
from realising her situation It was hard
to break su h ice as divided their two lives
now, and to attempt it at that moment
was • too humiliating proclamation of de
feat. The only plan she <x.uid think of—
perhaps not a wise o iei i the circumstances
—was io go to the rei lew herself, and l»«
the gayest there.
A metho I of doing this with sonv pro
priety sown occurred to her. She dared
not ask her futber, who scorn si to « tsco
time <u sight-seeing, aud wh<x«« a-tim»i y
t->ward Jim knew no abatement; but si.e
might call on her ell a :;ni itni-o, Mr.
Vine, Jim's partner, who would pro a’dy
be going with the res-; «•* the hol dty f !!t.
and axk if #he nii;ht aevomptny him in his
soring Iran. She had no so >n -r porceivei
the feasibility us this than she decid - I to
call upon ti e oi l niaii ths next morning.
In the meantime Jim and Mrs. I’each
had waked slowly along th-- road together,
Jim tending the h »rs\uni Mrs. Peieh in
forming him that her fa-h-r, the g-ir-leuer,
was a* Stick e or-I. and that she hid come
tuts way to meet him. Jim. for reasons of
fits own, was going to sleep al hi* partners
lhal mgbk aa-i tnui S’»»-ir route was the
stme The sho<let of eve cineol in upon
laem s-s they w * koi, an I by the tune th y
rw-i best the hm »-k i i, wb ch it was necee
to pass to get to the village, it was
dark. Jfea stopped at the kiln, to see
if matter* hast pro rew-od rightly lu hte
»e«en day's ab-w'Uv v, and iir» hart, who
s-.tix’k to h m like a toade, stopped alto,
itoymg she woe Id wait for her fatoar there.
Him heiil the borto, while be ascended to
of the kilo, Thea re joining her.
Douglasville. Georgia, Tuesday March 3 1885.
is- 1 not quite knowing what to do, uG stood
beside her looking at the flames, which to- |
night burned up brightly, shining a long
way into the dark air, even up to the ram- (
j parts of the earth-work above them, and j
! overhead into the bosoms of the clouds.
I It war during this proceeding that a car- I
I riage, drawn by a pair of coal-black horsus,
, came along the turnpike-road. The light ■
of the kiln caused tha horses to swerve a j
little, and the oc upant of the carriage !
looked out. He saw the bluish lightning- 1
like flames from the limestone ri ing from '
the top of the furnace, and hard by the fig- '
ures of Jim Hayward, the widow, and the <
horse, standingout w.th spectral distinct- i
ness against the mass of night behind. The
scene wore the aspect of some unholy as
signation in Pandemonium, and it was all
the more impressive from the fact that both
Jim and the woman were quite unconscious
of the striking spectacle the presented. The
gentleman in the carriage watched them i
till he was borne out of sight.
Having seen to the kiln, Jim and the *
widow walked on again, and soon Mrs. [
Pea h's father met them, aa 1 relieved Jim |
of the lady. Wneit they had parted, Jim, I
w.th an expiration no; unlike a breath of i
relief, went on to Mr Vine's, and having j
put the horse into the stable, entered tne |
house. His partner was seated at the I
table, sola ing himself aft-.-r the labors of i
tae day by luxurious alternations between
a long clay pipe and a mug of ale. |
| “Well,” said Jim, eagerly, “what's ’
. news.' How does she take it?” vH
“.Sit down, sit down.” said Vine.
working well; not but that I deservo some- :
thing o’ thee for the trouble I’ve h. 1 in I
watching her. The soldiering was a fine 1
move; but the woman is a better. Who
invented it:”
“I myself,” said Jim, molestly.
“Well, jealousy is making her rise like e. ,
thunder storm, and in a day or two you’ll
have ner for the asking, my sonny. Wuat’s
the next step?”
“The widow is gettinr th»r n. weight I
upon a feller, worse la -x ” o .a d j im. “seUjteT
I must keep it up un il to-morrow, at
rate. I have promised t > see her at the re 9
view, and now the great thingis that
gery should see we a smiling wbeth -r—
--my full dress unifornrand clinkfhg arift
war. 'Twill be a good strong sting;
will end the business, I hope. C.kJMtoftA
you manage to put the boss in andJrßwJfj
her there? She’d go il* you were tlfcjt 4
her.”
“With all my heart,” said
moistening the end of a new pipe
“1 can call at her grammar’s for 1
be ail in my way.”
CH A PTE; t XVL . 4
Margery duly foil >we 1 up |
by arraying herself the next j' -
h-r liveliest gu.si, an 1 ke-ping
Mi. X i.m vs.. K u ~-tou
feeling c<-r'.ai-.
-vjir jeession <>Fi-arU»
*;t in tfim"d»y.
l gmfo »> at a, fkry early hour, mid .-iWn
4iid not see him pass. Her a ticiiiarkx. was
verified by the advent of Mr. Vine about
eleven o’clock, dre sad to his highest effort:
but Margery was surprised to find that, in
stead of her having to stop him, he pulled
in toward, the gate of his own accord. The
invitation planned between Jim and the
old man pn the previous night was now
promptly given, and, as may be supposed,
promptly accepted. Such a strange coin
cidence she had never before known. She
was quite ready, and they drove onward at
once.
The review was hold on some high
ground a little way out of the town and
her conductor suggested that they snoul 1
put up the horse at the inn and walk to
the held—a plan which pleased her well,
for it was more easy to taxo preliminary
observations on toot without being seen
herself than waon sitting elevated in a
vehicle.
They were just in tim» to secure a good
place near the front and in a few niniutei
after their arrival the reviewing o fleer
caiuo on the ground. Margery’s eye had
rapidly ran over the troop in which Jim was
enrolled, and sue discerned him in one of the
ranks, looking remarkably new and bright,
both as to uniform and countenance. Indee 1, '
it she bad not worked herself into such a i
desperate state of mind she would have fe.t ‘
proud of him then an 1 there. His shapely •
u >rxght figure wa< quite noteworthy in the
rotund selection ot farmers on his right
and left, while his charger Tony expressed
by his bearing, even more than Jim, th it
he knew nothing ab ut: lime carts wdat- |
ever, and everything ab -uc trumpets and i
glory. How Jim con'd hive sernbbe 1
t ony to su li shining ola kcess she could
not toll, for ti e horse in his natural state ‘
was ingrained witn limo dust, that burned i
the color out of his coat as it did out of j
Jim’s hair. Now he pranced niarit.illy,
au 1 was a war-hoi.se ev. ry in hos h.m. I
Having discovertsl Jim. her n -xt search '
was for Mrs. Peach, au 1 by di.it of sma> '
ol li pie glancing Margery indignantly dis- '
covered the win low in the most forward
p ace of all, her hea l an I bright fare con- I
spicuously advanced; and, what was morn ■
shocking, she had abandun.'-l her mourning
fora violet •!.a vn-toniu-c an I a guy spen
cer, together with a |>araa»l lu urioudy ■
fringed in n way Marg-r.v a t never before
seen. “Where did she get the money:”
s i.d Margery, under h r breath. ‘"Aad to
forget tout p ><-r -wu or >u» sam!"
Tbesu general rv.i«-clioas were precipi
tately p'.'Stpoiied by her «iia»:jyering that .
Jim sod ths wi 1 »v. were perfectly alive to
ea n others whereab.m".a i.l'iii toe active
tutorchange of tol. grap i: - sig..s of atx.-e
--ti m, which on the latter’s p.trt took the
form '»f a playful fluttering of her liaitd
k-.-rciuef O’- waving of h«-r parasol. Ri h
ard Vine bad plac-d M irg» r. in front of
him, to pr’t ’Ct her from lb? crowd, aa h -
Ktid, he himself surveying the scene over
her bonnet. Margery Would have be?n
even m >ce surprised than sho was if sb •
had known that Jim was not only aware of
Mrs Fetch's pres nee, bit also of her own,
the tTeacberoas Mr. Vino having draws
out his fiama-eoloriMl handkerchief and
waved it to Jim over the young woman’s
head a* »>k> as they had taken up iheir
position.
•‘My partner makes a tidy sjldi.r. ch,
Mis# Tucker.” sa J tae totoor lime-burner.
M *t te tny belief a> a Chri-Uan that he'*
got a parly b-re that has making signs to
—that Ivan tso.ae figure o' fan straight over
right him.”
“i’erbasse »i,***he said, with the utm st
in difference on the surface of her face,
•‘AaJ its growiiig warm between em, if
mpn't Ktbuo-ta,” continued the menAk-js
, Vine.
1 Margory was silent, biting her lip; am’
J the troops being now set in motion, al
i signaling cea-ied for the present betweeii
I soldier Hayward and his pretended sweet
i heart.
“Hsve yokii piece of paper that I could
i make a irei. v .adum on, Mr. Vine?’ asked
i Margery. „ «
Vine tcok out his.pocket-book and tore a
i leaf from it, which’ho handed her, wife a
, pencil.
I “Don’t mov? from here—l’ll return in a
I minut p e continued, with the innoc-m e
i of a ...fedn who means mischief. Ami,
! wyfedq^t'i-.ig. herself to the bank, where
the clear, she pencilled down
the wor is
- “JlM’-f Married.”
Armed with thisTtocnment she crept into
th. throng behind ' the unsuspecting Mrs.
the paper into her po set on
' handkerchief, an 1 witadre v
< rejoining Mr. Vine with a bear
; ing of "‘io; -/i-iaz/a -T.
i t,e troo P' i were i n different
' ordjj’tJim taking a left-hand position a;-
■ mo.-ux’liH; >0 Mrs. Peach.. He bent down
' ami N?.i ! d “w words to her. From her
1 nWw r”' # ..adding fessrnt it was surely
Iso ’it fra ig -in -nt about a meeting by-an l
| - I ** lls drill was over, and Margery
die mere cer.afe of the fact when, tiie
’ 1. review’ having ended, and the people
refold tvhere sports wore to take place, Mrs.
1 Peach lifippod away in»tiie direction of
thi-ftowm w
. fl’ll jn a word ti my partner afore
ite goes'<fir the ground; if you’d spare me
■ . suid the. old lime-ourner.
“ er ' ,u i3ac ‘ a gai'»- He
' r ’«.' ‘ the front till he reached Jim.
I ; • «Js sb Taid the latter.
trimming sweat,’ said Mr. Vino,
i “ T 'F^Wwgcounsel to ye is to carry this
I 1 no further. ’Twill do no good.
mW-> ready to make friends wi’ yo as
*• 4 / e sn be, and more showing off can
■Miy
1 musff finish off with a spurt,” said
®’im. “ ’-nd this is how I am going to do
" l tia\a arranged with Mrs. Peach that
j- its as We soldiers have entered the
i rowu and have been dismiss© I,l’ll meet her
V. Ai’ o. f 4t is really to say good-bye, but she.
I .Mn’t know that; and I wanted it to look
a .’laufthent to Margery's eyes. When
, Fi hite&S,! Mrs. Peach 111 co ne back here
! and iii.iir'fft up -with Margery on the sp it.
| Lr.t uofft. say I’m coming, or she may bo
j t. throw off again. Just hint to
, n t te.&t 1 may be meaning to be off to
j Igiodo i with the widow.”
o d man still insisted that this was
n/?" to far.
t|p, it isn't," said Jhn. “I know
»' f «. mmiaga her. ’Tw.ll just m How
time I come ba 'k.
hi a
all fail.” "*■ ~ »
His senior in an I re
turned to Margery. A feiTwti;,
wbr.l the Ye .tuna ry band sIT
Jim, with the regiment,, followed
the town.
“Yes, yes; they are going tn irret,” said?
Margery to herself, perceiving, that Mrsg
Peach had so timed her departure as to be
in the town at Jim's
“Now we will go amts’® the games,” said
Mr. Vine: “they be ireally worth seeing.
T-.ere’s greasy poles,*and jumping in sacks,
and other trials of the intellect, that no
body ought to miss who want to be abreast
of his generation.”
' Margery felt so miserable at the appar
ent assignation, which seemed about to take
place despite her anonymous writing, that
she helplessly assented to go anywhere,
behind Vine, that he might not see she was
crying.
Jim followed out his programme with
literal exactness. No sooner was the troop
dismissed in the town than he sent Tony
to stable and jtwnrd Mrs. Peach, who ste > I
on tha edge c( the pavement expecting
film. But this acquaintance wartoeni;
he meant to pt.rt. from her forever and in
the q liexest tine, though civilly; for it
was important to be with Margery as 'O >n
a< possible. Ho had ne ir y completed the
I msn euvre to' his satisfaction when, i:i
drawing h -r handkerchief from her po :ket
I io wipe tha tears from her eyes, Mrs.
! Pea h s hand asped the pap sr, which sue
i read at once.
“What! is t|at true.'” she said, holding
it out to Jim.
J im started, and admitted that it was,
beginning an elaborate explanation and
! ap logics. But Mrs. I’each was thoroughly
rouse 1, and tiicn o eivomo. “He's mar
ried, he’s manieil!” she said, and swooned,
| or fcigmsl to-* swoon, so that Jim wai
oblige l to support her.
‘•He's married, he's married”’ said a boy
* hard by, w.m natch.-d the s eue with in*
tore t.
; _ “He's inarnfed, he's marre l!” said a ht
, ’ariou# gr nqr "’of other tioys near, wj;h
j*% ni'.es several inches broad, and shining
teeth; and so the exclamation echoed down
the street.
I Jim csrsed his ill luck; the loss of time
feat this dileurua entailed grew soriou*,
for Mr-. Peach was n >w m s tch a hysteri
cal stat* that he cou d not leive her wife
any good grace or feeling, it was no -os
. sary tofejko her to a refreshineut roun,
la ish torn:ires u t K>n her, and alto
gether •t» waste nearly half an h »ur.
When sib' bad kept him as long a< she
ciiose, sae forgave him: and thus a' last ha
go. aw*y> bri< heart swelling with te»ider
ne .s toir.:r l Margery. He a: once Lurried
up tha street t > effect the r> conciliation
wi h iier.
4 Ife* shall I do itf’ he said to himself.
4 Wuy, 1 11 step r.mnd to her side, fish for
b«-r hmd draw it through my arm as if I
wasa'tkware of it. Then she’ll took in my
face, I *hall loo< in hers, and wo sha.l
mar huff the field triumphant, tn! tie
thing will le done without takings or
tears.”
He tetoDed the field and went straight as
an a:T>*«' to ths piece appointed fur tho
rnec.isg It was at the • a .-k of a refresh
m -nt te*it outside of th • mass of »pe< tators,
and di*i !*i from their riew by ti>c tent ’
itself, He turned the cerner of the canvas,
and drt’e beheld Vine at tt»e iudjca.eJ spot.
1 ui M'J er J «- Jt wife him.'
\ hte s was thrust ba -k into bis polL
His *as p»le U n l h*s usuiuier bewil
dered. " Aul.o what s tha matierF «a*d
Jim “Where's my Margery’’
- »e carried th garni too far, my
vine. w;Ui the a!r of a
fru ad who "ha> always tul I you •ut’*
••Yua -ught t > have dropped it several
dayste *> •th’ l * >-u* would have evtna to ye
l:ke»cumng do.e. Now thu u the end
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i “Hey! whal, my Margery? Has any
thing happened, for God’s sakel”
“Bhe’s gone.”
“Where to?”
I “That’s moro than earthly man can tell I
I never see such a thing! ’Twas a stroke o’
the black-art—as if she were spirrited away.
When we got to the games I said—mind,
you told me to—l said, ‘Jim Hayward
thinks o’ going off to London with that
widow woman’—mind, you told me to!
She showed no wondeiment, though a’
seemed very low. Then she said to mo; ‘I
don't like standing here in this mean j
crowd. I shall fe.l mere at home among |
the gentle-people.’ .\nd then she went to
where the carriages w- re drawn up, and I
near her there was a grand coach, a-blaz- i
■ ing with lions and unicorns, and hauled by I
two coal-black horses. I hardly th lught
much of it then, and by degrees lost
sight of her I ehind it. Presently the
other carriages moved off, and I
thought still to see her standing there.
But, no, she had vanished; and th n I saw
the grand coach rolling away, and glimpsed
Margery in it, beside a fine dark gentle
man with black moustache and a very pale,
I rince-like face. As soon as the horse; i
got into the hard road they rattled on like
h—l-and-skimmer, and went out of sight i
in the dust, arfd—that's all. If you'd come I
back a little sooner you'd ha’ caught her.” :
Jim had turned whiter than his pip?- I
clay. “Oh, this is too bad—too bad!” he j
cried in anguish, striking his brow. “That !
paper and that fainting woman kept me so
long. Who could have done it’ But ’tis
my fault. I've stung her too much. I
shouldn’t have carried it so far.”
“You shouldn't—just what I said,” re- |
plied his seakr.
“She thinks I’ve gone off with that cus” ■
widow, and to spite me she’s gone off with
the man' Do you know who that stranger
wi’ the lions and unicorns is? Why, ’tis
that foreigner who calls himself a Baron,
and took Mount Lodge for six months last
year to make mischief—a villain! Oh, my
Margery, that it should come to this! Shs’s
lost, she’s ruined! Which way fflid they
go:”
Jim turned to follow in the direction in
dicated, when behold, there stood at his
back, her father, dairyman Tucker.
“Now look here, young man,” said Dairy
man Tucker. “I’ve just heard all that
wailing, and straightway will ask ye to
stop it sharp. ’Tis like your brazen impu
dence to teave and wail when you be
another woman's husband; yes, faith, I
see’d her a faiutifig in yer arms yrhen you
wanted to get away from her, anil honest
folk a standing round who knew you’d mar
ried her, and said so. I heard it, though
you didn’t sea me. ‘He’s married!’ says
they. Some sly regis rar’s o;Hce business,
no doubt; but sly doings wi 1 out. As for
Margery—who’s to be called higher titles
in these parts hence for'ard—l’m her
~TatbiJr, aiifFTWr-irr ait rtg-nt -«h->» -
.pon’t I know by private news, liey?
'iitifrbfi and oiami. tbtir "ow.\
obd i
thank God r<
Swift- words of explamitfor roje to Jiff's
lips, but they paused tOTre^nc 1 died. At
that last moment he could not, as Mar
gery's husband, announce Margery’s shame
and his own, and transform her father’s
triumph to wret.hodnoss at a blow.
“I—l—must leave here,” he stammered,
Going from the place in un opposite course
to that of the fugitives, he doubled when
out of sight, and in an incredibly short
space had entered the town. Here ho
made inquiries for the emblazoned car
riage, and gained from one r>r two persons i
a general idea of its route. It had taken :
the highway to London. Saddling poor :
Tony before he had half eaten nis corn,
Jim galloped along the sume read.
CHAPTER XVIL
Now Jim wa< quite mistaken ii. suppos
ing that by leaving the fiel i in a rotuida- 1
boat manner be hud deceived Dairyman
Tucker as to his olne U That, a-tute old
>ian immediately divined that Jim was
meaning to track the fugitives, in igno
rance tas the dairyman supposed) of their
lawful relation. He was soon auuro-l of
the fact, for creeping to a remote angle of
the field, he saw Jim has.ening into the
town. Vowing vengeance on the young
lime-burner for his mischievous inter
fcren -e lietwoen a nobleman and his
secretly Wedded wife, the dairyman det :r
--m ned to b; Ik him.
Tucker bad ridden on to the review
ground, so that ther? was no necessity for*
him, as there had bean for poor Jim to re
enter the town before starting. The dairy
man hastily untkd his mare from the ruw
of other horses, mounted, and des en led
to a bri Ile-pafe which would take bim
obl.quely into London road at Winford
Hill. The old man’s route being along one
side of an equilateral triangle, while Jim’s
was along two aides of the some, the for
mer was at the point of intersection long
before Hayward.
Arrived here, the rtairyman pulled up
and looked around. W.n-iford Hill was a
at which the highway forked; the left
arm. the more im>x>rtaut, led on. thrmgb
Melci.e ter to Loudon; thg right to JStickM
ford, Anglebury, and tne c ast Nothing
was visit.e cn the whit ; track to Jxmdbn;
tut on the othsr there appeared the hack
of a carriage, whi h rapidly ascendol a
diManthdlan l vanished under the trees.
It was the Baron’a, who, according to the
sworn information of the «gardouer at
Mount Lodge, had made Margery his wife.
The carriage having vanished, th? dairy
man gazed in thaoppus.te direction, toward
Casterbridge. Here ba behold Jim, in his
reginr nUb, laboriously ascending the bill
cn Tony's back.
t oou he reached the summit, and saw the
dairyman by the wayside. But Ji in did
not halt. Th'n the dairyman committed
the gr?atest vrror of his life.
, “Kight along the London road, if you
waut to catch am!" he said.
4 -’1 hunk yc, < airy man. thank yef* c*fied
Jin. his pale flee light tag up wife grati
tude, fur Le believed ti.at Tucker bad
learned his mistake from \ iae, au? Lad
cuuie tu bis »?s-i»‘.auce. t'Jit-bout drawug
rein he diminished down the Lili, along
the load uvt taken by the flying pair. The
dairyman rubbed his lu.mls with delight,
and returned to the
Jim pursued his wav through the dust,
up hill »a l uuwn hill, but never saw aueod
Os htqj tie __ Je of toL“ar fe. TLal . m
hide w»s fnsfitng along "5 diverging lane at
a distance of many miles from where he
rode. Still he sped onward, till Tony
showed signs of breaking down; and theii
Jim gathered from inquiries he made that
he had come the wrong way. Suddenly it
burst upon his mind that the dairymaiii
still ignorant o: the.truth, had misinformed
him. Heavier in his heart than words cart
describe, he turned Toby’s drooping bead)
and resolved to drag his wdy home;
But the horse was now so jaded that it
wai impossible to proceed far. Having
j gone about half a mile back he came again
j to a small roadside hamlet and inn, where
he put Up Tony for a fest hud feed. AS
] for himself, there was no fest in him. He
tried to sit and eat in the inn, but could
hot staff there. He went oiit and paced
up an 1 down the foad.
This hamlet had Once been a populous
village. It bore the natrie 6f Letscombe
Cr..ss. In the middle, ifriiere most of tint
houses ha I formerly stood, a road from the
hills tri- ef<ed the hig'bway at right an
gles down io the water nieiads, find at tl»9
intersection rose the remains of the old me
i di.vval cross which shared its name with
the hamlet; The interesting relic of anti
i Renaissance tim s was sadly nibbled by
I years and weather, bat it still retained somd
■ of its old ornament, and was often copied
‘ into the pock'tbook of the vagrant artist.
' Jim Hayward was standing in sight of
‘ this object when he beheld, advancing
toward it from the opposite direction, thl
b'ack horses an.l carr.age he s ught, now
gilded and glorious iu the dying fires of
I the western siia.
i The- why and wherefore of this sudden
appearance he did not pause to consider';
His resolve" to irtt -rcept th? carriage was
instantaneous. He ran forward to the
cross roads, and there, doggedly waiting,
barrel the way to th ; advancing opiipage;
The Baron's coachman shoute l, but Jiiri
stood firm as a ro. k, and on the former at
tempting to push past him, Jim drew his
sword, resolving to cut the horses dowd
ra'fe r than bo displa el. The animals
were thrown near'y ba "k on their haunches,
and at this juncture a gentleman looke I
cut of the widow. It was the llafon him-'
self.
“Who’s tliere.”’ ho inquire 1.
“James Hay Ward," replied the young
man, fiercely; “Arid he deniiiiids his
wife;”
The Baron leaped but ah I told the coach
man to drive ba. k otit of sight, and wait
for him.
“I was hastdrtirtg to firid you," he said to
Jim, iu a stern tone. “Your wife is whefj
she ought to be, and where you ought to be
also, by your own fireside. Where’s t_e
other*womanf’
Jim, without replying, looke I in re lu
lously into tho carriage as it turned.
Margery was certainly ndt there. “The
fetb T woman i» nothing to mi,” he said
bitterly. '1 ii<s4 her to warm up Mar
gery: I hare now ijpne with her. Tha
Uuestion I ask, my lord, is, what busine s
bad you with Margery to-day F’
“My business was to help ties to fegain
the husband she had seemingly lost. 1 saw
her; she told me you had eloped by the
Anglebury fottd with another. I, who,
have—mostly—had her happiness at heart
told her I would help her to follow you if
she wished. She gladly agreed; we drove
after but could hear ne- -*’i'li|igs of you in
front of lew* Then I to»>li y uur
house- and tn- to
iied to send to
could do it, and wffe tr eking jreu for tbajp
purpose." * ‘
“Then you’ve been a pnroihg a4bhrißo
“Yon nnA the widow.” *
“An<l I’ve been pursuing after you alid j
Margery I . . . My noble lord, your ae
; tiona seejn to »bow that I ought to belie-e
you in this; and when you say you’ve her
happiness at h'art, I don't forget that
you’ve formerly qn-o-ed It to be so» Well,
I Heaven (t rnid that I should think
1 fully of you If you don t deserve it! A
: mystery to mo you have always been, my
i noMe lord, and In this business more than
any.”
i “I am g’a Lto hear you say no wor <j.
In one hour- you'll have proof of my coa
duct-good ami bad. Can Ido an} th ng
more? Say the word, and I’ll try.”
Jim Collected. ‘ Baron,” ho said, ‘ I a-n
a p ain man, arid wish only to lea 1 a quiet
life with my wi e, as a man should. Yoa
have great power over her—power to a iy
ext-n", for goooroth rwise. If you com
mand h r anything on oartli, rig iteous o&
ques'Amiable, t!.a slie'li du. So that, since
you ns ; m ’ if you can do niofe for me, Hl
answer this, you can promt e never to sis
tor again. I mean no harm, my lord; b t
your pre cnee can do no go.d; yon wdl
bleus. If I return to her, will yort
forev r stay awayt"
They had met, as has boon ob orved, by
the cr s. Nobody was within sight; and
t king Jim by the artn, th- Baron mouutwl
the four octagonal st-n,. and laid bis Land
up n tljp body of the structure.
“Hayward,” said the H.lrO “I swear to
you by this holy stone that I Will disturb
you and your wife by my presence i.o
more.”
Iu relating this curt us incl-ie:ifc to the
pro-ent chronicler Jim u”d to declare that,
to his fancy, the ruddy light trf th? setting
sun burned with more than earthly fin on
tim Harun’s face and cn thy cross as tl rt
rblGinn word-- worn spoken: and that th<!
ruby flash of his eye in th) same !I.,ht WM
what h» never witnessed before nor since
in the eye of mor! al man. After th s there
was nothing more to door say in that
place. Jim accomptni 'd his never to-be
forgotten ac inalntan e to the carriage,
closed the door after him, waved his nat to
him, and from tha: hour be and the Baron
met not again on earth.
A few words will suflice to explain t’i«
fortunes Margery while tie for going
events w> r? in a tion el-ewhcre. On Joir
ing her compurtimi Vine shq hai gone <lis
tractedly among tho carriages, the rather
to ex-ape his observation th tn of any set
purpu e. Standing te ra she tho ight she
heard her uame pronuunce<i. and. turning,
saw h«r fr.ea !. wb.m ha I s sp
|KM*d to be, if not dead, a th miles
off. He beckmie I, anfl -’she close-.
“You are atq •<? ; lied, h- said,
looking keenly iu ffi .i, ■ «.■ Lcr-i’s
your husltenrlF Tq
She brie'ly toh! him, h»q' tjii/iippl-i n
Baron re? «rted. ani f. , n< , er
particular* of her laio Lfe, . TLuafeu sa»d,
“You and I mon find him. Gome wish
me. ’ At till, word of Mnisani from the
Boron »he had entered the csrrHgs a« do
cilely a# a child, and isonte 4
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