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kia )’ LAT EE TEA CUP BORE. FEED LL 'ondfi- “There is pane thing I have not done; and yet in: 18 muffihe sald ear- nestly. when she had fmgshed talkin about the adventure thh the bulfi tovthis. the sense that, come what would. she had secured him. Half-an- hour after her arrival he walked in, and she met him with a relieved glad- 11638, which: a. month’s perllous absence could not haveintegsghed. _ "â€"1wâ€"u va- AUVUWU‘U‘B Dual! _ - v- the adventure with the bulfiiwnufd qumfch his love for me, than: I $391133; is. broken the news of our ma;- re§olved to do rt off-hand. come what 1" to my dear Elizabeth-Jane." mxgh't, and purchase a week of happi- laugAEh’ and you have not," he said 11035 at any (308‘?- By a strenuous effort, after leaving Henohard, she calmed herself in read- 111633 to receive Donald at High Street Hall when he came on from his lodg- i113. 9110 eupreme faot‘ empowered her vv“ ing her the hour at whieh he might be expected the same evemng. This ac- counted for her trotting out to meet him after their separatiom of four hours. At the last moment of leaving Port- Breedy Farfrae. like John Gilpin, had been detained by important custom- ers, whom, even in the exceptional cir- cumstances, he was not the man to neglect. Moreover, there was a con- venience in Lucetta arriving at her house. Nobody there as yet knew what had happened; and she was best in a position to break the news to the in- mates, and give directions for her hus- band’s accommodation. He had. there- fore, sent on his two-days’ bride in a. hired brougham, whilst he went across the country to a certain group of Wheat and barley risks a few miles off, tell- Farfrae's words to his landlady had referred to the removal of his boxes and other effects from his late lodgings to Lucetta’s house. The work was not heavy, but it had been much hinder- ed on account of the frequent pauses necessitated by exclamations of sur- prise at the event, of which she had been briefly informed by letter a few hours earlier. “Yesâ€"I think he has mm them, or else Mr. Grower has. . . May I leave you now? Myâ€"he was detained at Port-Breedy, to-day, and sent me on a few hours before him." “I am much obliged to him. . .Oh, you false woman I” burst from Hen- c-hagl. “You promised me 2" “Then it is his wife’s life I have sav- ed this afternoon." “Yes, yes. But it was under oom- puliion, and 1 did not know all your pas A__l’ “Michaelâ€"pity me, and be gene-r- erous." “Yesâ€"and he mm be for ever grateful toHyouJ' “You don’t deserve pity. You did; but you don't now." “I’ll help you to pay off your debt." “A pensioner of B‘arfrae’s wifeâ€"not I! Don't stay with me longerâ€"I shall say something worse. Go home." “It was like this,” she explained, with tears in her eyes and quavers in her voice; don’tâ€"don't be cruel! I loved him so much, and I thought you might tell him of the pastâ€"and that grieved me. And then. when I had promised you, I learnt of the rumour that you hadâ€"sold your first wife alt a fair, like a horse or cow. How could I keep my promise after hearing that ? I could not risk myself in your hands; it would have been letting myself down to take your nameaiter such a scandal. ButI knew I should lose Donald if I did not secure him at onceâ€"for you would carry out your threat of. telling him of our former acquaintance, as long as there was a chance of keeping me for yourself by doing so. But you will not do so now, will you, Michael; for it is too late to separate us?” “And now I’ve a mind to punish you as you deserve! One word to this bran- new husband of how you courted me. and your precious happiness is slown to atoms.” “Then this racket they are making is on account of. it, I suppose ?" said Henchard stood as if idiotised. She was so alarmed at his silence that she murmured something about lending him sufficient money to tide over the perilous fortnight. “Married him ?" said Henchard at length. “My goodâ€"what, married him w‘hn'Jstâ€"bouznd to marry me ?” “Marriage?” “Yes. \Vizth Mr. Farfrae. Oh Mich- ael, I am already his wife. \Ve were married this week at Port-Breedy. There were reasons against our doing it here. Mr. Grower was a witness be- cause he happened to be at Port-Breedy at the time." ‘You are provoking!” he burst out. “It is enough to make me force you to carry out at once what you have promised." “I cannot 1” she insisted despera;tel)’- “\Vhy? When I have only Within these few minutes released you from your promise to do the thing off‘hand.” “Becauseâ€"-â€"he was a. Witness!” “\Vitness! Of what ’4’” “If I must toil youâ€"â€"Dou’t, don’t upbraid me!” “Well? Let's hear what you mean?” “\Vitness of my marriageâ€"Mr. Grow- “ t is not because I won’tâ€"it is beâ€" cause I absolutely can’t,” she said. with rising distress. “But it is such a little thing I” he said, with a. deep reproach. “Less than you have offeredâ€"just the beginning of What you have so lately promised! I would have told himaa much myself, but he would not have believed me.” “If Lt were anything else," she be- gan, and the dryness of her lips was represented in her voice. CHAPTER iXXIX.-â€"Gontinued. It being now what people call the "Pinkin in” of the day, that is, the quarter-hour just before dusk, he did not at first observe the result of his words upon her. AS GOOD AS GOLD. CHAPTER XXX "- ~' “I don’t admit that," said Lucetta passionate-I y . “Admit it or not, it is true.” Lucetta covered her eyes with her right hand, as if she could plead _ no more, holding out her left to Eliza.- tell me, instead of teasing me like this? How very honourable of you! He did .treat my mother badly once, it seems, in a moment of intoxication. And it is true that he is stern some- times. But you will rule him entire- ly, I am sure, with your beauty and wealth and accomplishments. You are the woman he will adore, and we shall all three be happy together now.” “Oh, .my Elizabeth-Jamel" cried Lu- ‘1 “Oh yesâ€"I remember; the story. of your friend,” said Elizabeth drily. regarding the irisis of Lucetta's eyes as though to catch their exact shade. “The two loversâ€"the old and the new; blow she wanted to marry the second. but felt she ought to marry the first; so that the good she would have done she did not, and the evil that she would not. that she did-exactly like the Apostle Paul." “Oh no; she didn’t do evil 1” said “But you said that sheâ€"or as Imay say you"-â€"acnswered Elizabeth, drop- Dmg the mask, “were in honour and truth bound to marry the first." Lucetta's blush at being seen through plied anxiously. “You will never breathe this, will you, Elizabethâ€"Jane?” “Certainly not, if you say not." “Then I will tell you the case is more complicatedâ€"worse in factâ€"than it seemed in my story. I and the first man were thrown together in astrange way. and felt that we ought to be united, as the world had misrepresented us. He was a widower, as he sur posed. He had not heard of his first mie for many years. But the wife re- turned, and we parted. She is now dead; and the husband comes paying solved from all vows by the return of the other woman." "HQVQ you not lately renewed vmir ‘Oh yes, " said Luoetta. eagerly. “I am sure she v. ould like to. Besides, poor thing, she has no other home." i Farfrae looked at her, and saw that she did not suspect the secret of her more reserved friend. He liked her all the better for the blindness. “Arrange las ~xou like Wlth he,r by all] means,” :he said. “It is I who have come to your house, not you to mine. ” Lucetta uttered a vague “Yes," and seating herself by the other young woman. looked musingly at her. “\Vhat a lonely creature yyou are,” she pre- sentl y said; “never knowing What’s go- ing on, or what people are talking about everywhere with keen interest. You should get out, and gossip about as other women do, and then you wouldn’t be obliged to ask me a question of that kind. Well, now I have something to tell you." lizabeth-Jane said she was so glad. and made herself receptive. :‘I must go rather a long way back." said Lucetta; the difficulty of exp-lain- mg herself satisfactory to the ponder- ing one beside her growing more ap- parent at each syllable. “You remem- ber that trying case of conscience I told you of some time agoâ€"about the fll‘St lover,. and the second loyer.” She “I did not come down to you, Miss Templeman,” she said simply. “i was coming to ask you if you had quite recovered from your fright; but Ifound you had a visitor. \Vhat are the bells inging for, I wonder? and the band, too, is playing. Somebody must be married; or else. they are practising for Christmas." \Vhen she got upstairs to Elizabeth- Jane’s room, the latter had taken off her out-door things, and was resting over a book. Lucetta found in a. mo- ment that she had not as yet learnt the news. ' “I'll run and sfieaik to her,” said Lu- cetta. “Oh no, ihdeed I don’ t,” Famffae ansâ€" wered with perhaps, a. faint awkwardâ€" ness. “But I Wonder if she would care to ?" thoughtfully. “I gave her a lift. from the barn homewards; but I did not tell her either; for I thought she might have heard of it in the town, and was keeping back her congratulations from shyness, and all that.” “She can hardly have heard of it. But I’ll find out; I'll go to her .ngw. And, Donald, you don’t mind her llvmg on with me just the same as before? Shefiés so gug'et _agd_ magegmigg.” lately renewqd your all," he said. “And I Wish for your sakes ’twas more.” The creditors, farmers almost to a. man. looked. at the watch, and at the money, and mto the street; when Farm- er James Everdene spoke. all.” â€" v..’ -“o v..." “v VVV“ “LU Evy“ . watch fro ‘hfs pocket, and lald it on the table; than his purseâ€"the yellow. canvas money-bag, such as was carried by all faljmers and dealersâ€"untying it, and shahmg the money out upon the table beSLde the watch. The latter he drew back quickly for an instant, to remove “the hair-guard made and given hun by Lucetta.” _“I‘hgre, nqw you have eveg', but a fillzm of ash was over the res . “Gentlemen," he said, “over and above the assets that we’ve been talking about, P there be these. It all belongs to ye, as much as everything else I’ve got. and I don’t wish to keep it from you, not I." Say‘ing this, he top]; hisgold above all the rest, he called their at;- tention for a moment more. Hus comntenancâ€"e had somewhat changed from its flush of prosperity; the black hair and whiskers were the same as ever, but a fiflm of ash was over the The room in which debtor and credi- tors had assem‘bled was a front one, and Hemchard, looking out of the window. had caught sight of Elizabeth-Jane through the wire blind. His examina- tion had closed, and the creditors were leaving. The appearance of Elizabeth threw him into a reverie; til-l turning his face from the window, and towering above all the rest. he nailed Hmir 2r- The details of ‘his failure were of the ordinary kind. One da)r Elizabeth Jane was passing the Golden. Crown, when she saw people bustling in and out more than usual when there was no market. A bystander informed her W’Ltll some sum-prise at her ignorangva, that it was a meeting of the Commls- swners under Mr. Henchard’s bankâ€" r'uipltcy. She felt quite tearful, and when She heard that he was present in the hotel she wished to go in and see him, but was advised not to intrude thy} dajr. ._â€"-~~--â€". mug suuéo un. LWPULMDJ auu HUI-1" 0111‘. and began to iiescend rapidly on the other side. It was strange hOW soon he sank in esteem. Socially she had recceived a startiing fillip down- wards; and, having already lost com- mercml buoyancy from rash transac- tions, the velocity of his descent in both aspects became accelerated every hour. New events combined to undo hlm. It had been a bad year for others be- sx.des himself, and the heavy failure of a debtor whom he had trusted imp-J ic1tly 90'mPleted the overthrow of his totter- hpg credit. And now, in his despera- tLOIl, he failed to preserve that strict correspondence between bulk and sam- Ple, which is the soul of commerce. For this, one of this men was mainly to Name; that worthy, in his great un- wusdo'm, having picked over the sample of an enormous quantity of second-rate corn which Henchard had in hand, and removed the pinched, blasted, and smut- ted grains in great number. The pro- d'uce, Lf honestly offered, would have created no scandal; but the blunder of misrepresentation, __coming_ at such a 1'“ -‘n‘ _ moment, I Luoetté: departed _to jOiZD. Donald be- jlow, a. vague queasnpess floating over her joy at sealing hum ~(1mm at home jthere. Not on account. of her friend Elizabeth did she feel lid; for of the boargngs of Elqabeth-Jane’s emotions . Small as the Court incident had been un 1tself, it formed the edge or turn 1n the incline o-f Henchard’s fortune. 011 that dayâ€"almost; at that; minuteâ€"he passed tape, ridge of prosperity angl :hon- of old and always, it might by this time have grown to be lightly regarded as. the rather tall wild oat, but the smgle one, of a young man with Whom the steady arid mature, if somewhat head- stropg, burgher of to-day had scarcely f" pomt in common. But the act havmg The retort of the furmity-woman be- fore the magistrates had spread; and i111 four-and-twenty Lours there was not a person in Caster‘bridge who remained unacquainted with the story of Hen- chard's mad freak at \Veydon Priors Fair, long years‘before. The amends heohad made Ln after life were lost sight oan the dramatic glare of the original aot.‘ _ Had the incident been well known and set up for a gentleman on his wife’s money, or Whether he would Show independence. enough to stick to his trade iJn spite of his .bri-lliamt alliance, was a great point of mterest. By this tiJme the marriage, that had taken place was known; throughout Casterbridge; had heen dlsoussed noiS-ly on kerbstones, qunet'ly ,obehing coun- ters, and jovially at the ng of Prussia. W'hether Farfrae wowldv sell his business It was still early in theevening when she hastily put on her things and went out. In a few minutes, knowing the ground, she had found'a suitable lodg- mg, and arranged to enter it that night.- Returnixng and entermg noisetlessly she took off her pretty dress and arrayed herself in a. plan one, packing up the other to keep as her best.'..for she woufltd have to be Very economical now. She wrote a. note to "leave tor Luoetta, who was closely shut up m the drawing- room with Farfrae; and then Elizabeth- Jane called a man With a wheel-bar- row; and seeing her boxes put into it she trotted off down the street to her rooms. They were m the street in which Henchard lived. and almost 0p- posLte his door. Here she sat. down and considered the means of subsistence. The little an- nual sum settled on her by her step- father would keep bodyand soul to- gether. A wonderful skill in netting of all sortsâ€"acqwired In childhood [by making seines in Newson’s homeâ€"might serve her in good stead; and her stud- ies, which were pursued unremittingly, might serve her in still better. “The bells age rmgmg on that ac- count," she sand. _ “My husband is downstairs. He WLII we here till a more suitable hIOU§6 IS ready for us; and I have told hpm that; I want you: to_ §tay with _me 398}; as before.” “Youâ€"have-marrieq. Mr. Farfrae!" cried Elizabeth Jane, 1n Nathan tones. _ Lueetta bowed. She had recovered “Let: me think of. .it alone,” the girl quick-1y replied. Cprkmg up the turmoil of he'r feeljmg W'lth gland control. “You Shall. I am sure we shall be. happy togeyherfi’ ‘ d‘ragged' Heâ€"nchafd’s name in- CHAPTER XXXI. have, from the time of their preparation, been a continuous :5 access with the public. And that means that Ayer’s Pills accomplish What is promised for them; they cure wheie others fail. It was fitting, t i“ erefore, that the world-Wide popiflarity of these pills should be rec cognized by the World’s Fair medal of ‘1893â€"3.‘ fact which emphasizes the recor" ° dome Should shadow the nations, polychrome . . . Here at the Fair was the prize conferred 0:1 Aye: ’s Pills, by the world preierred. Chicago-like, they a record Show Since they startedâ€"50 years ago.- ber of : uests without the discomfort of a. crow when the service in the dining room is continuous. 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