Show revenge in BY MARY main MORRIS KIRKE KIKKE CHAPTER 1 I i say no more mother for gods sake sty siy no W more I 1 why 1 w ill you on continue to add to the bitt bitterness einess I 1 already feel fed you know lull full well nell I 1 M gladly undo llido the past but it is too late 1 11 1 suppose it t is is john but it is very mot moi tit giffing in to us its all to be compelled to acknowledge that gill ill as your our inife ufe I 1 declare it was enough to make one die with shame to listen to her ter last evenin evenings s how could you have been so rash so unlike your own reasonable self is as to marry such a girl upon the more mere of her possessing 11 a fortune siy say no more mother you know very well how it happened I 1 why will you yott persist in taunting me fora for 1 weakness the effects ot of which must forever remain I 1 was a fool but there is some excuse for my iny lolly folly after all away out in the country in her fathers father house in her own sphere emily did not seem the same that she does now in our reined refined ined city society and then I 1 felt a r sort ort of gratitude to the girl for her kindness and attention to nic me w 1 hen for so many weeks I 1 lay an invalid in tier her fathers house but all this would not have led me into the folly of actually marrying her had it not been embellished by the false belief that by doing sa I 1 could at once obtain the money I 1 you know how much I 1 to think of her boorish old father refusing to give her a dollar outside her ber miserable yearly allowance until she becomes of age 1 he keeps his gold like a miser I 1 and I 1 shall be ruined mined in ia less than six months if relief does not como come from some quarter I 1 two long years to keep up tip the farce of loving if I 1 bould hope to obtain any portion of old clarkes charkes Cl arkes money I 1 yes two years longer I 1 must love my nl eife ife 11 the last word was accompanied by a bitter aneer the mother heaved a deep sigh expressive of her sympathy but no more was spoken between the two and shortly after they left the room A white rigid figure stood concealed bellind behind the heavy window curtains in the room where the above recorded conversation took place the figure of a tall slender young girl with great black eyes now burning a t strange light the pale hands were tightly clasped over that wildly heaving breast or clutched at the window frame to support those trembling feet long she stood there in the tanie frame position of eager listening fixed and motionless long after the speakers had left the room until twilight came the grand cit city y mansion and the street lamps began to glimmer through brough the th deepening d gloom she frood there until site she he herd tr i the i vant coming to light the gas and quietly left her place of concealment just a as the girl was entering the door that listener was the he country wife of mr john huntington of aristocratic huntington square she had entered tho the vacant sitting room and quite unconsciously taken her place at the window without h the least intention of concealing herself und and did not know now how low completely she was hidden bidden by the heavy drape iv until her husband and mother inlaw law lair hul had entered the loom in camest and ox c vin cited conversation in which her own name was lias mingled and of nl which she iad had beal headd 1 I enough to tender lender her powe powerless to move if she had ao 0 o desired desired that iiiI night it when mr joint john huntington went nent up tip to his lux luxurious urious chamber ethcie c was n no pale black e eyed y ed wife to i welcome elcome him sho she was not in ill the house nobody could tell ii where here she was mr john huntin huntington ton aas alarmed as the houis bouis went by and she camo came not could it be that the igner lant ant country gill was bringing atesh disgrace upon his laidly name the bei sei vaLts were called up tip and all were ignorant as the alvious iotis questioners at last the girl 1 w ho the gis gas in the sitting room mrs huntington had passed her just as she entered the door and she did not speak to her as usual she remembered hei e lias another proof of tile the 5 3 oung N w afes low rural manners slie she talked li ith the servants but the genteel city relatives did not stop to think of that vulgarity ity now mother and son had another thought fla flash flah h through their minds mindi it the same instant they looked at each other but said no nothing thian it the search was continued no fat fai ther that night the husband was agitated 7 and tile the stately fe mother and ancl the two queenly sisters contributed bitter to add to liis his unhappiness the next morning early a servant came in N n ith a note directed in it stiff lound hand to mr john huntington it contained these wolds the ignorant gill will trouble the fine city people no boic and will nill try to bahig no boic dis disgrace raco and shame to them EMILY CLARKE no longer huntington A scene of confils confusion ion for once prevailed in the usually gent cely ecly quiet house of the Hunting tons poor john weak and unprincipled is as he be was felt some orne remorse at i hat lie he had bad done and even a dene cof of regret at the loss of hl his wife mis huntington fit the scandal it would bring upon their immaculate nanie name while the young ladies Clenie clementina ntina and helen declared they were glad to get lid of that one plague spot upon their Willi ant house at any cost borne plausible tale to account for the sudden disappearance must be it invented vented and soon all things would go on as butkie john huntington possessed a jcak eak irresolute tit it acter tile the natural result ot of lumi luxurious rious training under the foolish indulgence of an all equally weak mother his father haling lied died while john was quite a 3 oung joung child his life had been passed amid all the enervating scenes of fashionable city society and when lie arria arrived ed at the ago age which his mother informed him he should choose some business and a 1 wife l ifer ho be was stattler led to rind find himself quite incapable ot of tile the OV gnp or unable to decide for the other the Hunting tons did not in reality possess the great wealth that was generally atti attributed ib to them although they strove hard to keep up the semb semblance lance until the marria marriage go 0 of f the son and daughters daught daugh teis cis should bung bling actual means to the house it was also alho positively necessary for the son to enter into business of some sort to increase his income NN which aich dissipation had biad reduced alarmingly but pride forbade that he be should set himself earnestly to seek such assistance when john huntington went into business the world must understand that it was ln wholly holly a matter of taste and choice until some splendid op opportunity ty came to his door begging to be accepted he must remain the idle die young gentleman of unlimited means he be was supposed to be at this stage of affairs fairs at mr huntington to relieve the ennui he felt in town and mo moie leover over to avoid the gi cater expense of visiting a fashionable watering place took an excursion into the wild romin tic hills of new england an accident caused by his awkwardness in in fishing from a little by which lie he was involuntarily compelled to take a cold bath in the deep waters ot of the treacherous little introduced him to the hospitable farm farin house of squire eben clarke poor mr ton I 1 his mishap nearly cost him his life and had not old snarl the ugliest and most intelligent dog that ever lived discovered the young gentleman floundering in the w water ater the house of the blunting tons would undoubtedly soon have been without an heir and so old snarl saved the life ot of the city gentleman and introduced him to the house of his master on the hill bill for weeks the invalid for the effects of his half drowning were serious received the kindest caie and attention from squire clarke and his pretty affectionate daughter john huntington had spoken truly when he said eaid emily clarke appeared like a different being in her own home ionic there the only child of it a doting old father she supreme and her graceful form light footstep and mairy gushing laughter brightened the dull house and made sunnile sunshine all the day long emiles voice too was wonderfully fully beautiful even in its wholly uncultivated state and the simple songs site she warbled in her clear bit baid d like tones sounded strangely in that pure country atmosphere and seemed to be in perfect unison with all the fresh natural beauty rounding surrounding sui that lonely home in the mountains mountain squire blaike perfectly idolized adoli bcd his bright child and never wearied in recounting her vii flies to ill his attentive city guest often too the feild old father would A v ith child childish lh pride of the fortune th it would one lay adorn lis emiles beauty until john huntington began to cole t for himself 11 both the daughter daught erand and her fortune ot of course emily blaike clai ke listened with milling illing li believing ear to the eloquent words of love spoken by that man mail so well edue educated cited in ill all the arti art of flattery it a never nel C r b e boic had those thoo at aita Is been practiced upon one so unsophisticated so go guileless never before had bad they been received in ill such perfect faith and emily in the full confidence ot of her innocent gave the to loebe e ho eloquently asked for squire clarke simple old in inan in thit that he be wi was alts unhesitatingly and proudly pi audly gave his consent i H hen ben john huntington asked his daughters hand in marriage and even boasted that lie he thought his darling little girl would make a grand city match poor old min man like many others whose humble lives have been passed in the country he be seemed to imagine the city one splendid school devoted to perfecting a and n 1 I polishing all the high noble attributes of human nature found in their tough lough state among 11 the country people lie ile had often expressed the wish that emily might receive that elegant finishing but had never taken any steps toward it himself lie Ife could not bear the thought of sending her away from him to any boarding school and as she was content to remain ii with ith her lil dear old father in her home she had bad reached her sixteenth year as free from all know knoll I 1 edge of the great world as a one of the wild flowers ers growing upon her native hills almost before he was fully aware of what he be was doing mr john huntington Huntin glon became the husband of emily clarke married without even hinting the event to his proud lady mother and elegant sisters squire clarke made a great wedding to which all the old and young lor for miles around were invited amid that vast company of rustic fi friends ends and emily shone mith queenly splendor and really seemed fitted for another and hi higher her sphere As the husband hubaud gazed upon his bride so graceful so beautiful so evidently supe fior to all her own cicele lie he quieted all apprehensions hen that crossed his mind as to how bow his oil jovn n family might receive so unexpected an addition and nattered flattered himself that even they must approve his sudden choice then above all was the dazzling aling lustie of his wires fortune thit that he be well knew would cover coter a multitude of deficiencies so ho he gave himself no farther uneasiness concerning the consequences of his h ansty asty action but yielded himself to a i ot of delight with his fair young country bride ile he ciote immediately to his mother breaking gently is as possible the astounding intelligence of his mauline mau Lige and was impatiently awaiting an atiel answer or when he became aware of a fact that somewhat suddenly awakened him from his agi agreeable enable v inions of cwm immediate relief from pecunia i y troubles great i was as mr Hunting tons disappointment to bicain that his wife would have bavo no control 0 over er her fortune or receive receive any considerable sum of money until her el eighteenth birthday two years distant squire eben clarke was known to be 1 N cry set in his way and when once lie he had really decided upon a thin thing thele e was no hope ot change ills his will leaving ill all his possessions to his only daug daughter liter had ton long been made and also it was written tha emily was to receive nothing outside her hery or M beall ea cail allowance until she was eighteen belis or of age j this ie revelation lev clation was very disheartening toning to A ml huntington as he be hoped to at least a fe k thousands immediately to supply his most pless pi essa ing necessities tile the emergency ot of the case caused the newly made husband to hint to his fataei in law the desirability of a change in this pat particular ti cillar but received for reply that tit the will anas w as made and it was not necessary to change it because I 1 emily I 1 nii ay iy was married it good luck to change a will of course she did not need the money now and they were both welcome to atty on the faim the whole two years and then over ever body would see bee how handsomely emily w be netted fitte dout out I 1 here chere was no need of hurrying huir ying off his darling gill so soon just take her town down to the city to see her grand now new ic ie lations and then retell fetch her b back ack again they would all live so bo nicely for tv wo 0 yens on the farm persuasions were vere in vain eben clarkes charkes Cl arkes mind was made up tip and that settled the matter so mr john huntington was compelled to take lake his bride with but little addition to his purse for the present home to his aristocratic friends in the city ot of course the proposition pio position to I 1 live on the farm was met with contempt what attractions atti attl actions had bad the place now that its bligh brightest test was withheld I 1 in her splendid city home sin rounded by e ele c ganales and refinements refinement which bho haa bad never before e behold beheld among the cultivated polished people of aristocratic upper bondom the lustic Eill emily ityl cei certainly ceita appeared to great d tig e loan beau kittil she certainly was but e eveia oi y 1110 movement in her state of constrained feeling most lost unfavorably ln with ith the easy elegance of sty ie IC poss eted by her relatives whose refined is s or chilling condescension of manner made her daily life miserable save those lew few hours spent in her 0 it loom with her dearly loved husband in her oi 0 it blind lovo love for him she had bad not 3 tit et disco el ed hll hii hi i real feelings for lie ho had bad studiously concealed them and indeed john huntington really had glee gico of affection for his i ule lie aid and luu had he lim ca seen her outside her own country homo bome rud ae not exposed her and himself to the lid icille ct f lii hi MAlo Ir lends hu ho would no doubt baic u loved her ter with N ith tit all the strength of which a i nature like hirwas in was capable poor f mily emily wa wai i painfully conscious of her deficiencies now ti that I 1 at she ihu had the eunity of learning them and tiled hird hard to tn acquire the tit in inlets ot of those abound her ber fondly hoping she would one day overcome her a lak w alj ness nes ald and hm 1 orance it was not until fit atiat ailt gitil it conver sati on bobeen betie cn mother mollier and lou that tile young youn wife knew the tit full extent of her ber nii en on oil the alie el evening ening previous pi evious to this conversation fey few friends were gathered in the pallor pailor of the lie huntington mansion one ot of the guest buesa a deap pointed aspirant for the honor of becoming mis john huntington had for the or of bringing ringing mortification to the husband asked emila to 0 play knowing knowin full well she |