Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 255, 12 October 1906 — Page 7

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COPYRIGHT. 100 0. CHAPTER X. ORD MARKHAM vr.aa a person of indefinite age and lnftnite manners, lie wore a? ill f.tting wig, but he'biftPli high reputation as a man of honor. He sat beside Sir Jasper on tbe front seat while cn the back seat sat Tom Stafford; and the curricle sped cheerily along: the up and down Bath streets out Into the country budding with green, down, down the hill to Hammer's fields by the winding . Avon. Kir Jasper's face bespoke great dissatisfaction with life at large and with his own existence in particular. Tom Stafford was beginning to feel slightly bored. "'Tis an early spring," said Lord Markham, in the well meant endeavor to beguile away the heavy minutes and distract his principal's mind. "'Tis very mild weather for the time of year, nnd the lambs are forward." "Ugh!" said Sir Jasper. "Speak not to him of lambs," whispered Stafford. "Do not you see he is all for blood and thunder?" - Then he added maliciously: "There Is but one animal in the whole fauna that Sir Jasper takes an interest in at present, and that's not easy, it seems, to fins in these purlieus,: though we know it does haunt them; 'tis the red dear!" He chuckled, vastly delighted with tie conceit. "Let us hope we shall not have rain," said Lord Markham; "these clouds are menacing." "Nay, they will hold up for half an hour, enough to serve our purpose," growled Sir Jasper, and tipped the horses with the lash so that they Ipurned the slope. "Bat we shall get wet returning," pleaded the well meaning earl. "I nald so all along. Twould have been better to have gone in a coach." 'I vow," cried Sir Jasper, with a sudden burst of spleen "I vow that 1 have it in iny heart to wish that Villiers' ' ball may speed so well that I may feel neither rain nor shine coming borne again. Home again," said he, with a withering smile. "Blast it. a pretty home mine Is!" ."And a' pretty cheerful fellow yon ore to brings out to a merry meeting,' quoth Stafford from the back, "and a nice pair of fools you and the colonel be, plague on you both! And when you are shot 'twill be a fine satisfaction to think that your wife can console herself with the owner of the "red curL eh? What are you going to fight old Villiers-' about, I - should like to know?" "You do know," growled Sir Jasper. Then he exploded. "You goad me, sir. Io I want to fight Villiers? Is not this business the merest fooling, : sheer v-:--: . hy:i the real fellow ir tut- v 2Wmi

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EGERTON CASTLE Pride of Jennico" BV EGERTON CASTLE villain! aa.. II13 hold u the reins tiiteneJ. belaid on tli whip, and the curricle swayed as th horses leaped and plunged. "Really." ssid Lord Markham, " wish I had come in a coach." "Hold on." cried Stafford. "Hold c:. Jasper. We 16n't all want to leav. our bones In thi3 business." There came a pause in the converse tion. They bowled along a more level roa." with the wind humming in their ear and the rhythmic trot of the graybeating a tune. Then Stafford rc marked vaguely: "I have a notion there will be no duel today at Hammer's fields, Jasper: that you will be able to rctnru with undiminished vigor to the hunt of the unknown culprit." "How now?" cried Sir Jasper fiercely "Have you heard from Villiers? Art they all rats nowadays? Verney first, then that Spicer, then the colonel? No, no; the fellow was mad with me, sir. and the offense was miner "Nevertheless," said Stafford, unmoved, "I happen to know that Colonel Villiers' man was sent in all haste for his physician, Sir George Waters, at such an unconscionable hour this morning that Sir George dispatched the apothecary in his stead, and the apothecary found our fire eating colonel roaring in a fit of tbe most violent gout 'tis possible to imagine, so violent, indeed, that poor Mr. Wiggiubotham was soundly beat by the colonel for not being Sir George. Villiers foot is as large as a pumpkin, old Foulks tells me. I had it all from Foulks over a glass of water in the pump room this morning, and zooks, sir, his falsa teeth rattled in his head as he tried to describe to me the awful language Colonel .Villiers was using. He's to be Villiers' second, you know, btit he swore 'twas impossible, rank impossible, for any man to put such a foot to the ground." ' They were rounding tbe corner of Hammer's fields as he spoke, and Stafford's eye3, roaming over the green expanse of grass, rested upon the little group drawn up toward the entrance gate. . . "Unless," he went on, "the colonel comes upon crutches. No, zounds! Ila. ha! Jasper, I will always love you. man. for the capital joues you have provided of late. Strike me ugly if the old fellow has not come in a bath chair!" , - ReaTly;" said T.ord 'Markham," "thiols very Irregular. ; I have never before been privy to a duel where one of th combatants fought, iu a chair. And 1 am uot sure that F can undertake thi responsibility of r concluding arrange merits in such clt'cuin stances." "Blaste.1 i:o:i"5PTi?t!" sr.ld Sir Jasper with nP ' 0f tif. mr- 4 generally employed andyetfeo harmful, in the long run," to most iiralids when its use is long continued, elen in small doses, cost Dr. Pierce sevllral years of careful study and labor, wlh the aid of skilled pharmacists and M? hemists to assist him. Naturally, hefloes not care to give away his scientil p and exact Erocesses for preparing thj Je medicines, ut he does want to deaLjn the most open manner with all hijpatrons and patients, and under this frskk, open and honest wav of dealing, tnUy may know exactly what they are taki ; when using his medicines. What Do They Cure This question is often asked co ermng JJr. Tierce's two leading medi es, Golden Medical Discovery" and " ecription." avorite Pre The answer is that "Get en Medical Discovery" is a most pot it alterative : or invigorvorably in a ipon all the or bhxd-purifier, and ton ator and acts especially ft curative and healing way mucous lining surfaces ai of the nasal tubes, stomtring a large whether the passages, throat, bronchia ach, bowels and bladder, d per cent, of catarrhal 43 set disease affects the nasi ssages, the throat, larynx, bronchia, tomach (as catarrhal dyspepsia), n s (as mucous diarrhea), "bladder, uwinfe or other pelvic organs. Even iiUfhe chronic or ulcerative stages of these affections, it is often successful in effecting cures. The w Favorite Prescription " is advised for the cure of one class of diseases only those peculiar weaknesses, derangements and irregularities incident to women. ; It is a powerful yet gently -acting invigorating tonic and strengthening nervine. For weak, worn-" out,; over-worked women no matter what has caused the break-down, "Favorite Prescription " will be found most effective in building up the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of toe whole system. Women suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Doctor Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is "held as strictlv private and sacredlv confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser (1000 pages) is sent free on receipt of 21 onecent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound copy. Addrew as above- . - , . - -. . -.

mean or. lie flung tue reins to txis man as be spoke and clambered-down'frtraF the curricle. Stafford had, gone before

him to the gate and was now stamping from one foot to another in exquisite enjoyment of the situation. , IIa, ha, ha! Hello Morning, colonel. Sorry to see you this way! Ha, ba Have you brought .another bath chair for our -man?-Oh," eonie, yes. Twon't be fair if he da not sit in a bath chair too! Say, Foulks, you wheel one chair, I'll wheel the other; and we will run them one at the other and let them lire as soon as they please. Gad, what a joke!" ' Colonel Villiers turned uiou his volatile friend, a countenance the color of which presented some resemblance to a well defined bruise on the third day. It was yellow and green with pain where it was not purple with fury. "Mr. Stafford, sir, these Jokes, sir, are vastly out of place. (Curse this to explam. Major Topham, explain to these gentlemen that I have come out to fight, sir, and that fight I will, by the living jingo!" He struck the arm of the chair in his fury, gave his suffering foot a nasty jar and burst into a howl of rage and agony. "Stab me," said Stafford, "I'd as soon fight an old bear! Whisper. Foulks, is he going to shoot in his cage beg pardon, I mean his chair?" "Such is his intention," said Mr. Foulks; grinning nervously as he spoke and showing the set of line Bond street ivory already referred to by Mr. Stafford. "But it strikes me it is somewhat irregular." "Somewhat irregular?" ejaculated "Lord Markham. "It is altogether irregular. I decline to have anything to say to It" Sir Jasper remained standing gloomily looking at the ground and driving his gold headed malacca into the soft mud as if all his attention were directed to the making of a row of little tunnels. "What is the difficulty? What is the difficulty?" bellowed Colonel Villiers. "You wheel me into position and you mark the paces, eight paces, Foulks, not a foot more, and you give me my pistol. What is the difficulty? Blast me! Blast you all, I say! What is the difficulty?" "The combatants will not be equal," suggested Major Topham. "I told Villiers that I will gladly take his place." "No, no, no!" screamed the old man, turning round, and then, "Oh!" cried he, and screwed up his face. And then the gout had him with such fury that he gripped the arms of his chair and flung back his head, displaying a ghastly countenance. "I remember," champed old Foulks, "the dear Duke of Darlington insisted upon fighting Basil Verney (that's Verney's father, you know) with his left arm in splints, but as my Lord Marquis of Cranbroke, his grace's , second, . remarked to me at the time" "Oh, spare us the marquis!" Inter rupted Stafford brutally. "Let us keep to the business on hand, if you please. The whole thing is absurd, monstrous! Look here, Jasper, look here, colonel, you two cannot fight today. - How could you be equally matched even if we got another bath chair for Jasper? We .cannot give him the gout, man, and 'twould be too dashed un fair. Colonel, you would shoot too well or too ill; 'twon't do! Come, come. gentlemen, let us make a good business out of a bad one. Why should you fight at all? Here's Jasper willing to apologize. (Yes; you are, Jasper. Hold your tongue and be sensible for once. You pulled off his wig, you know. It was not pretty behavior not at all pretty.) But, then, colonel, did not he think you had cut him out with h'is wife, and was not that a compliment? The neatest compliment you'll ever have this side the grave! He was jealous of you, colonel. Faith, I don't know another man in Bath that would do you so much honor nowadays!" "Oh, take me out of this!" cried the colonel, suddenly giving way to the physical anguish that he had been struggling against so valiantly. "Zounds, I will fight you all some day! Take me out of this! Where is that brimstone idiot, my servant? Take me out of this, you devils!" Between them they wheeled his chair into the road, and his screams and curses as he was lifted into the coach were terrible to hear. "Lord, if he could but call out the gout!" cried Stafford. "Well, Jasper, what did I say? No duel today." "Do not make so sure of that," said Sir Jasper. He was moving toward the curricle as he spoke and turned a sinister face over his shoulder to his friend. "Oh," cried the latter, and fell back upon Markham, "the fellow's look would turn a churn full of cream! No, I will not drive back with ye, thank ye, Sir Jasper; I will walk," said Stafford. T don't mind a little jealousy in reason myself, and if a husband has been given a pair of horns I don't see why he should not give somebody a dig with them, but if I were to drive home in that company I'dbave no appetite for dinner. Come, gentlemen; 'tis a lovely day; let us walk." So Sir Jasper rolled home alone, and, as his coachman observed a little later, as he helped to unharness the sweating horses, "Drove them cruel." CHAPTER XI. DADY STANDISH was one of those clinging beings who seem morally and physically to be always seeking a prop. Bef fore adversity she was prostrate, and when his lordship the bishop of Bath and Wells was ushered into her sitting room, half an hour after Sir Jasper's departure for llammer's fields, he found the poor lady stretched all her length upon the sofa, her head burled in the cushions. "Dear me," said his lordship, and paused, ne was a tall, portly, handsome gentleman, with sleek countenance, full eye and well defined waistcoat. Could human weakness "have touched him, he would have felt a pride in those, legs which so roundly filled the silk stockings. But that human weakness could never affect the Vishop tf Bath and Wells was a thing that dignitary? (and be gave his Maker thanks for !tjfelt't be utterly lncon celvable. "Lady Standjsh," said the bishop; then he waved" bis hand to "the curious erraat - " C .

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'he. - " .: . Lady Standish reared . herself with a sort of desperate heartsiekness into a sitting posture and turned her head to' look dully upon her visitor. "You come too late." she said: my lord, Sir Jasper has gone to this most disastrous meeting." "My dear Lady Standish," said Dr. Thurlow, "my dear child." He took a chair and drew it to the sofa and then lifted her slight languid hand and held it between his two plump palms. yy dear Lady stauUish, pur sued he, iu a purring, soothing tone. If he did not know how to deal with an afflicted soul, especially it that afflicted soul happened to . belong to tbe aristocracy and in preference In habitated a young female body, who did? "I came upon the very moment I received your letter. I might perhaps have instantly done something to help in this matter had you been more ex plicit, but there was a slight incoherence very natural !" Here he patted her hand gently. "A slight incoher ence which required explanations. Xow ten me. I gatner tnat your worthy husband has set, forth upon an affair of honor, eh? Shall we say a duel?" Lady Standish gave a moaning, as sent "Some trifling quarrel. Hot headed young men! It is very reprehensible, but we must not be too hard on young blood. Young blood is hot! Well, well, trust in a merciful Providence, my dear Lady Standish. You know, not a sparrow falls, not a hair of our heads. that Is not counted. Was the ah quarrel about cards, or some such trifle?" "It was about me," said the afflicted wife in a strangled voice. "About you, my dear lady!" The clasp of the plump hand grew, if pos sible, a trifle closer, almost tender. Lady Standish was cold and miserable This warm touch conveyed somehow a vague feeling of strength and com fort. "About me," she repeated, and her lip trembled. "Ah, is it so? And with whom does Sir Jasper fight?" "With Colonel Villiers," said she, and shot a glance of full misery into the benign, large featured face bending over her. ; , "Colonel Villiers," repeated the bish op in tones of the blankest astonish ment. "Not eh, not er old Colonel Villiers?" "Oh, my lord," cried Lady Standish, "I am the most miserable and the most innocent of women!" "My dear madam," cried the bishop, "I never for an instant doubted the latter." His hold upon her arm relaxed, and she withdrew it to push away the tears that now began to gather thick and fast on her eyelashes. The bishop wondered how it was he had never noticed before what a very pretty woman Lady Standish was, what charming eyes she had and what quite unusual ly long eyelashes. It was something of a revelation to him, too, to see so fair and fine a skin in these days of rouge and powder. "And yet," sobbed Lady Standish, "'tis my fault too, for I have been very wrong very foolish. Oh, my lord, if my husband is hurt I cannot deny 'tis I shall bear the guilt of it!" "Come, tell me all about It," said the bishop, and edged from his chair to her side on the sofa and repossessed himself of her hand. She let it lie in his. She was very confiding. "We are all foolish," said Dr. Thurlow. "We are all, alas, prone to sin." He spoke in the plural to give her confidence, not that such a remark could apply to any bishop of Bath and Wells. ' "Oh, I have been very foolish," repeated the lady. "I thought, my lord, I fancied that my husband's affection for me was waning." "Impossible!" cried his lordship. But he felt slightly bewildered. "And so, acting upon inconsiderate advice, I I pretended only pretended, Indeed, my lord that I cared for some one else, and Sir Jasper got jealous, and so he has been calling everybody out, thinking that he has a rival." "Nevertheless," said the bishop, "he has no rival. Do I understand you correctly, my dear child? These suspicions of his are unfounded? Colonel Villiers?" "Colonel Villiers," cried she, -"that old, stupid red nosed wretch! No, my lord, indeed, there is no one. , My husband has my whole heart." She caught her breath and looked up at him with candid eyes swimming in the most attractive tears. "Colonel Villiers!" cried she. "Oh, how can you think such a thing of me? But my husband will not believe me.i Indeed, indeed," indeed, I am innocent. He was jealous of Lord Verney, too, and last night fought Mr. O'Hara." , The bishop smiled to himself wfth the most benign indulgence. His was a soul overflowing with charity, but it was chiefly when dealing with, the foibles of a pretty woman that he appreciated to the full what a truly Inspired ordinance that of charity is. "My dear child, if I may call you so, knowing your worthy mother so well, you must not grieve like this. Let me feel that you look upon me as afriend. Let me wipe away these tears. Why, you are trembling. Shall we not have more trust in the ruling of a merciful heaven? Now, I am confident that Sir Jasper will be restored to you uninjured or with but a trifling injury. And if I may so advise, do not seek, my dear Lady Standish, In the future o provoke his jealousy in this maniner. Do not openly do anything which will arouse those evil passions of anger and vengeance in him." "Oh, Indeed, indeed," she cried, and placed her other little hand timidly upon the comforting clasp of the bishop's, "Indeed I never will again!" "And remember that in me you have a true friend, my dear Lady Standish. Allow me to call myself your friend." Here there came a sound of flying wheels and frantic hoofs without, and the doorbell was pealed and the knocker plied so that the summons echoed and re-echoed through the house. "Oh, screamed , Lady Standish, springing to her feet, "they have returned! Oh, heavens, what has happened? If he is hurt I cannot bear it; I cannot I cannot!" She clasped her head wildly and swayed as if she would .have fallen. What could a Christian do. a gentleman and a shepherd of souls, but catch her lest she

tain i-.-.'.'; ..-.Yjr, she turn ed and clung to him as she would have clung to the nearest support. "Have courage." he purred into the little c - "I am with you. dear child Have rage." So tliey stood, she clasping the bi?hop and the b.'shop clasping her, patting her shoelucr. whispering ia her ear, when Sir Ja?ner burst in upon them. It was his voice that drove them apart yet it was neither loud uor fierce it was only blightingly sarcastic. "So!" said he. What was it Stafford had said: "There's the bishop of Bath and Wells. He's red. as red as a lobster, from toe to toe. They have a way, these di-

Sir Jasper hurst in upon them. vines." Oh, Stafford knew, doubtlessall Bath knew! Sir Jasper cursed horribly in his heart but aloud only said, "So!" Lady Standish flew half across the room to him, with a joyful cry, but was arrested midway by his attitude, his look. The bishop said "Ahem" and "Ahem" again, and then said he; "I rejoice I rejoice. Sir Jasper, to see you return unscathed. Lady Standish has been greatly distressed." ' "And you," said Sir Jasper dryly, "have been consoling her." "To the best of my poor power," said the bishop, and felt, he knew not why (if. Indeed, it were possible for him to feel that way), a shade uncomfortable. Sir Jasper closed the door and bowed. "I think," said he, "I ought to crave pardon for this Intrusion." "Oh, Sir Jasper!" cried my lady. Her husband turned toward her for a second. She wilted beneath his eye and sank into a chair. "Oh, Sir Jasper," said she, maundering, "the bishop has beeu very kind. I have been so unhappy about you." "I see," said Sir Jasper, "that his lordship has been very kind. nis lordship, as I said, has been administering consolation." Here all at once his stoniness gave way. He walked toward the bishop and bent a ghastly face close to the florid, uneasily smiling countenence. "My lord," ' said Sir Jasper, "your cloth will not protect you." '"Sir!" ejaculated .the divine. ' ''Your cloth will not protect you!" repeated Sir Jasper in that voice of strenuous composure that seems to tremble on a shriek. "Oh, shepherd, you!" "Sir!" cried the bishop. "Do you mean to insinuate" "I insinuate nothing," cried the other, and sneered. "So, madam" be turned again to his wife "this is your choice, eh? You were always a pious woman, were you not? Yon would like to have the approval of the church upon your acts, would you not?" Indescrib able was the sarcasm rpon his lip. "Really," said the bishop. "I am seriously annoyed." He looked reproachfully at Lady Standish. "Madam," said he, "I came to you, as you know, in pure charity, in unsuspecting friendship,. I was not prepared for this." (To Be Continued.) Mrs. Edward Jones and Miss Anna Jone of Hamilton will come next week to be the guests of Mrs. W. D. Scott.

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