Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1893 — Page 3

THE AUTONOMY OP DREAMS. Dreams dream themselvee, and come not at oar bidding, We cannot eater (be domain of Sleep And rule Its destinies by merely ridding Qur breasts of alltbai, waking, madeus weep, Dreams dream themselves The world where \\-e go dreaming tike snow-hushed earth is bold, and white, and still: What marvel If amid its-silent seeming We hearken unto tales of good or lilt Dreams dream themselves, nor come they for our longing. When tired children weary vigils keep, From loving llpe the fairy-tales come thronging, Till troubled Infancy Is lapped In sleep Dreams dream themselves Dear Mother Ns- ' ture, yearning Over a lover she has laid to rest. Whispers a tale so sweet that, on returning To conscious life, all dreams to him are blest. Dreams dream themselves Yet, when the heart is breaking, And darkness falls upon us like a pall, We almost hope there will be no awaking— That endless, dreamless sleep will cover all! —S. R. Elliott, in Eippincott’s.

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^Copyrighted, 1891, by a S. Morton, and published by special arrangement.] CHAPTER XVI.—OoWTINuitD. He had just entered upon the quiet vista of Delaplaine street, absorbed in his own interesting reflections, when his attention was idly directed toward a gentleman in an invalid’s chair which an attentive valet was slowly pushing along the pavement. The thin, shrunken figure in its rich attire, sparkling with diamonds and resplendent in fine linen, attracted perhaps rather more than a casual attention from North, whose mind was impressed by the painful contrast ^between the abject wretchedness of the invalid’s face and the pomp and splendor of his outward circumstances. Helpless and suffering, he was evidently not one whom the severe discipline of physical affliction had softened and refined; it was but too obvious that here was a mind as warped and diseased as its frail tenement. The expression of his face betrayed a. harsh, •Selfish nature exaggerated almost to a grotesque degree by years of self-indulgence. He appeared to be constantly on the alert to discover something .that he might construe' into a grfe’jance. The querulous glance of his restless eyes, the sneering curl of his thin lips under a fierce iron-gray mustache, forestalled all words, and were- a sufficient Warning to persons of acute penetration not to give him the provocation for which he was evidently watching to give way to violent and aggressive wrath. North was passing this gentleman with the speculative but courteous glance of a perfect stranger, when to his'utter amazement he was accost#^ in the most peremptory manner. ^ _ The wheel chair was brought to a sudden halt, while a petulant voice uttered the startling challenger “North, you--jackanapes! What do you mean, sir? Do you intend to insult me?” North was electrified. What Nad he done? Who was this interesting invalid? “Some one, evidently, whom I qught to know,” he thought, “and whom it will be awkward and unfortunate to offend. What can I do to pacify him?” Then, lifting his hat as he turned back to the gentleman, North said, with an apologetic air: “My dear sir, I beg your pardon. I was preoccupied, and did not recognize you at all.” * This statement, although offered with charming frankness and suavity, was quite thrown away upon the deeply offended gentleman. - > “Oh, don’t tell me!” he cried with-an-gry emphasis, looking at North with his shrunken sallow face suffused with a purple flush, and his small black eyes flashing resentful fire. “Your wonderful harangue last night turned your head, I presume. Preoccupied, were

the wheel chair was brought to a K SUDtoEN HALT. , - you? Didn’t see me, eh? Heavens and earth, sir, that’s false! .It was a pi$ce of deliberate impertinedce,. North, and you'know it. You’re carrying a high hand just now, young man; oh, yes, a. very high hand, but we’ll *ee how long it will continue! ,My patience will not last forever. Heavens' -and earth, there’ll be the mischief to pay one of these daysl You don’t hoodwink me so neatly after all, Mr. North; I’m not the shallow dupe thit you take me to be!” “Well, upon my life, what mad, raving maniac is this?” thought North, blankly; then, rallying from his amaze- „ der an entire misapprehension, v I have no motivaor desire to hoodwink you, and so far as my transactions have any connection with yourself they are open to your inspection. And now, sir,” he added, sternly, cheeking the torrent of abusive words that he plainly perceived to be imminent, “I beg leave to end this colloquy. You havaa claim upon my tnrbMWMi aUwryte, I »b<roldrt^oir» jnent he said, calmly: are an

yon to apologi*# for the language in which yon havu Just indulged. 'Good morning, siR* It will readily he understood that the effect of this encounter was not tranquilizing, and there' werfc superficial traces of annoyance in }%Hh's faee and manner when, a few moments later, he entered Mrs. Maynard's drawing-room. 'He had hot inquired if Sirs. Maynard were disengaged, rather indolently taking it for granted that she would be; and he was very much annoyed to find that lady occupied with morning visitors. Mrs. Maynard was one of the few ladies in X- who found it expedient to hold morning receptions; and_ this happened to beher “day.” North felt extremely awkward on discovering that he had intruded a purely business call upon a social hour; but before he could excuse himself and withdraw—indeed before he was able to decide whether or not this would be his better course—he was seized upon, figuratively, by the entire drawing-room and retreat was impossible. Finding that he was intimately acquainted with everyone present, he entered with measurable agreeableness into the current of small talk, inwardly hoping that none of his friends would notice the circumstance that neither wheSn he first addressed them, nor in his subsequent conversation, did he call any of them by name.

tie seized an opportunity to spean a few words to Mrs. Maynard in private, during the course of his calL The conversation had turned upon a wonderful cactus which the gardener had just induced to bloom for the first time.. Everyone had seen it, except Norths and with the same exception everyone was going into raptures about it. a North immediately became enthusiastic on the subject, for the cactus was in the conservatory, beyond the reach of the sharpest eyes or ears in the draw-ing-room. v, “Mrs, Maynard,” he exclaimed, turning tc/that lady v with an air of mock ‘appeal, “my happiness depends upon my seeing that cactus! Will you favbr me to this extent?” With some laughing rejoinder she led the way to the conservatory, which opened from the drawing-room, apd a moment later they stood alone in the warm, moist, perfume-laden place, with great banks of tropical plants, wide-spreading palms and stately cannas casting a delicate green twilight around them and a>sdft, dreamy silence jyrvading thfc fragrant gloom. rNortli duly examined the cactus and expressed “the proper degree of admiration; then turning quickly to Mrs. Maynard, while his mariner changed from the superficial suavity that he had adopted for the drawing-room to a portentous gravity, he said, in a low tone: “Mrh Maynard, I have something of great importance to tell you. You will be surprised — perhaps disagreeably. Shall I speak now, or wait until some other time?” i She was tearing the petals from a great crimson-hearted rose, and she did not look up; but the slight tremor of the languid white fingers betrayed to him the nervous agitation against which her pride and will were contending with only partial success. - “You may speak now, Mr. North.” Then, wearily: “Why should you wait? It is no worse at one time than another." “True, Mrs. Maynard; and certainty, however unwelcome it m,ay be, is always more easily borne than suspense. In one word, then—Annie Dupont has beep discovered?’ The soft color in her cheeks died out quickly in the surprise that she felt at this announcement, and Id? an ihstant her eyes lifted themselves to his with a half incredulous inquiry. “You did not expect this, Mr. North?” she questioned, quietly, a curious reserve in her manner which made him vaguely conscious of having lost ground with her since theii- fast interview. The intimation was too subtle and slight for him to be able to seize upon it and definitely assign a cause; but, had not his affairs been shaping themselves so satisfactorily within the last few days, it would have occasioned him infinite uneasiness.

“Expect it?” he repeated, with a short expressive laugh. “No more than Annie Dupoat herself! I can scarcely use a stronger comparison. It’s the strangest case, Mrs. Maynard, one of those that prove the statement that truth is stranger than fiction, I have not yet been able to lay my hands on the' documents which will prove her identity, and establish her legal claims as Mrs. Dunkirk’s niece and heir; but $hat these documents exist I have proof as clear as the noon-day, and I confidently expect within the next twelve hours to have those papers securely in my possession.” Absently breaking off a bit of pale blue heliotrope that was reaching out temptingly toward him over th e mass of fragrant blossoms, he put it carelessly in his buttonhole as he spoke these last words. “Does this proof come through the man who called here a few days ago?” inquired Mrs. Maynard with the same reserve and in a speculative tone. Her fingers were still busy with their work of destruction; her eyes idly watched the great crimson petals fluttering to their death. “O’Reilly?” North smiled a little, with his eyes fixed in sharp but baffled scrutiny upon her coldly unresponsive face. “Yes, through him. I could take him into court to-day, with two or three other persons who are equally within reach, and by his sworn testimony, without the aid of any documentary evidence whatever, establish Annie Dnpont’s identity so thoroughly that no combination nor conspiracy against her could possibly overthrow it; but for her sake I prefer to wait for the corroborative testimony that those documents contain. There will surely be but a few hours’ longer delay.” He was unconscious of the warmth in his words and manner until he was awakened to the fact by the cold, surprised inquiry fat Mrs. Maynard’s suddenly lifted eyes. “You are singularly enthusiastic, Mr. North,” she said, slowly, holding her gate steadily, while North, with mo

mentary discomfiture, felt him—If flushing a little under its cold accuser tion. “You leave me no possible inference but that your most arifnt wish is to establish this identity.- May Task if your sudden interest in this hitherto unknown heiress is purely- professional?” , He did not, at that moment, fathom the suspicion in her mind, but he vaguely caught its superficial significance. A curious little smile crossed his face, then a perfect inscrutability veiled its whole expression. Mrs. Maynard, observing him with sharp intentness, felt all the shock of a sudden and unexpected repulse. She had knocked at a door that had instantly been double-barred apd locked against her. “As for that, Mrs. Maynard,” North rejoined, after a moment’s pause, his manner light and jesting, “so long as the lawyer is also a man, it is not always possible to disassociate his per-# sonal and professional feedings. If they don’t antagonize each other, they generally become merged, you know." “Especially where a young and beautiful heiress is concerned,” suggested Mrs. Maynard, with quiet bitterness. “Why do you think that Annie Dupont merits that description, Mrs. Maynard?” demanded North, teasingly.

n ere we speaxing oi. Annie uupont?,ir returned Mrs. Maynard, with a frigidly polite,stare. “Your question implies a degTee of self-consciousness, Mr. North. But pray excuse me; I cannot leave my friends any longer. 1 have been absent from the drawing-room too long already. Understand me distinctly, Mr. North,” she added, facing him proudly for an instant with a brilliant color in her cheeks and a defiant light in her'dark brown eyes, “I am sincerely glad to hear of Annie Dupont’s good fortune, and 1 congratulate you with all my heart on having been the disinterested means of bringing about this happy result!” North confusedly murmured his thanks and turned to follow her to the drawing-room. He felt, amused, annoyed, and on the whole rather' disappointed in this interview. It had developed absq^utely nothing to his practical advantage, while it. had suggested a whole'train of bafflipg speculations; and to-crown all, he had a harassing suspicion that in this passage-ataarms with Mrs. Maynard he had not figured so creditably as he could have desired. But he had no opportunity to indulge his slight chagrin on this account, for the instant he reentered the drawingroom he received a shock that drove all these less important matters from his mind for the time. At the further end of the long draw-ing-room, talking to a garrulous old dowager in eye-glasses, who had evidently captured her upon her first appearance in the room, stood a young lady—yes, the very same whom he had seen with Mrs. Maynard in the carriage. She was tall and slight, with a proud, delicate face, whose exquisite fairness was accentuated by the soft clinging crape of a richimourning dress. She was beautiful enough to make a sensation in any social assembly, yet so icily cold that all words of admiration would freeze upon the most anient lips. There were many who, obsei3nag~-her in different moods, fancied Imn-iea^ath this ice throbbed a warTSTheart that had suffered as only the-neart of a proud, loving woman can; but of this the serene brow and lips gave no sign. North stood transfixed for a moment as if oblivious of the presence of others, unconscious of the emotions that his face was betraying. All doubt was gone from,his mind. Even if he could have questioned the direct evidence of his own eyes, he received convincing proof in the cold recognition that her proud glance expressed as it rested upon him for an instant. It was not such a glance as a perfect stranger, however indifferent toward him she might feel, would bestow; under all its hauteur a flash of passion lay—scorn, contempt, unforgiving resentment, which told of the pre-existence of some kindlier sentiment. In answer to the look that she met from his eyes a scornful little smile flitted over her lips, and, bowing very slightly in recognition of his presence, she deliberately turned away to avoid any further notice of him, and continued the conversation which had suffered no break in consequence of this little by-play. So quickly had the mutual recognition taken place that only one person in ' the drawing-room besides the two most intimately concerned had taken cognizance of the fact. Mrs. Maynard had spoken twice to North and lie bad not heard her; but when, suddenly recalled to his surroundings, and the fact that he must behave sanely while he was under the scrutiny of so many curious eyes, he turned toward her with an effort to resume his usual manner and expression, she was saying in a low, satirical tone: ‘‘You seem to take a strange interest in Miss Hilary this morning, Mr. North. May I suggest that your manner is a little—just a little, perhaps—noticeable?”

North flushed deeply; he had not yet regained his self-possession, as his hurriedly uttered words proved. “I have seen Miss Hilary before, Mrs. Maynard. We are quite old friends,” he said. The mockery in Mrs. Maynard’s smile instantly changed to something else not quite translatable, hut suggesting utter disbelief in his statement. “Indeed!” she said, coldly. “No one woftld have suspected this from your manner of meeting her here two weeks ago.” “My manner of miieting’her—” North abruptly checked the .indignant disclaimer, adding, desperately:V“There has been a misunderstanding, Mrs. Maynard, which I cannot explain noy, but in a few days more I shall be at liberty to speak. In the meantime—will you not pity rather than condemn?” It was an involuntary appeal wrung from him by the fear that before he could have an opportunity to plead his ! cause before Myra some malign’ fate I might interpose and separate them again. If he regarded Mrs. Maynard : as the impersonation of that fate his heart must have ailed him, for marble

cojpld not have bean more cold and pHS* less ;ts she turned away from him with the words: “Unless you deserve condemnation, you surely do not require pity. Yourre* quest is a confession, Mr. North.” She left him then, in order to receive some one who had just’ entered the drawing-room; and North, reviving as if from the effects ef a sudden dash of cold water, found "his wits sufficiently to resolve upon an immediate departure. He had succeeded, after waiting a few moments for the opportunity, in making his adleux to Mrs. Maynard, and had reached the drawing-room door when Williams confronted him with a meesage. “Maj. Maynard’s compliments,” he said, bowing low, “and will Mr. North please come up to the major’s study for a few moments?” It flashed upon North’s mind instantly that there must not appear in his manner the slightest hesitancy about complying with this request, and he therefore assented at once; but he was in no enviable state of mind as he followed Williams up the broad st^iroase. Oddly enough he had never calculated upon the probability of his being comi pelled to meet Maj. Maynard, and he

f TALKING TO A Q ARBTTLOU 8 OLD DOW AGE*. had nqt prepared his mind for such an emergency. He had no time now to do more than to rally his self-possession and n#vevhi«self to meet the unexpected in whatever shape it might present- itself to him. falling back upon a measurably clear conscience as a sustaining factor. The major’s “study”—so-called, although there was nothing in the appointments of that luxurious den or'in the occupations daily pursued within its four walls to warrant such a designation—wad si tuated near the first landing of the winding stairway. [TO BE CONTINUED.] ONET WOMAN’S DAY. It Is That of a Resident Teacher In On* of New York's Boarding Schools. Heard in five hours ten recitations, embracing Latin, rhetoric, literature and mathematics, and superintended^ two drawing classes and writing, tf' Walked twice with, the young ladies and sat with them through three study hours. Head aloud to them half an hour, and danced fifteen minutes with them. Ordered meals for two girls who were ill, and visited both. Made and applied one mustard plaster. Bang for a messenger boy and despatched a package. Showed one girl how to trim her second best hat; another how to mend her gown, and crimped the hair of a third. Spent ten minutes trying to qomfort a home-sick child, and ten more sopping up spilled ink. Interviewed three anxious mammas concerning three abnormally bright I daughters. But all peculiarly constituted and requiring careful treatment. In the hour devoted to rest and relaxation shouted “Come in!” sixteen times to sixteen girls who wanted anything and everything, from the solving of a problem.to knowing the hour and borrowing the scissors. Went down three flights of stairs to express an opinion on the “hang” of the new parlor ourtains. Talked with two teachers in search of situations, and evidently envious of so desirable a one. Made .one bed and saw that sixteen others were made. Wrote to; a dry-goods firm, ordering samples for a country friend. Wrote a brisk and cheerful letter home. Said “yes” and “no” at the right time, and smiled when it was expected. Dressed and undressed twice, and incidentally ate two and one-half meals. Saw that sixteen girls were duly bandaged and plastered and watered and in bed with the lights out at 9:30 p. m. Corrected nine compositions. Hauled out a folding bed and dropped in.—N. Y. World.

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