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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 5

Tim oil pio^-peetois wimc a-> Mi i'.i-^id^ > supposed ihov would - they made liic usual au.ingement with Cassid), and h.ul put down a well. They believed I,lk;> v. etc eoitainof success, lor (ho surface indications lacked nothing, whatoxet. Two, ll'K 1". toui weeks ot inpednncnls, troubles and dela;,,s, wluu one dd) the, inmates ol the KKev, Paini House wmc slaitlel ii\ a wild luokmu, e\<iled m.m lushing into llic hnr.se wuhthc laconic luu si^uilieant l\clam.it ion. 1 We ye -t i in k it '" ' S| \ uck w hat '" ' Oil, M..ss ' oil ' Oil till \ou (ant U'-l ' Oil in -tieam- 1 its a llowni will. M.-s The oil uu-hes out, in a meat stieam, and t heir ain't < oopi ia<,<' riiou'jhm llu-lown-->!up to hold l! ' Oil ' why Ml- thrie- oil euou<d\ 1 uniiiuu out ot tint hok to ni.iko all lTiownlitlMi !i -h Oil ' Theie'- n< \e) hcen siu'h a -itiUe -line oil was dis eo\eied' A Hush i une o\o Mai\ El-c\'- pile face. It this should pio\( tiiu, In r loudest ho]n- and wiide-i, .ispn.ition- lould be i(Milled She could ha\e a home such asin 1 t'e-iied she could ha\e hooks and mii-ic -he could ha\e clothes, and not onh the (omioiK hut the lu\ui ies ot l'te — hei si^teis could In sent to seminaiies and he: biolheis (.) (olleue-,, wheie they i-onld ho educated as she had not !)een - •.heheiselt < ould have the tune and means to educate ho scU t lv- lonu, w e.o \ -.tru^le wnh want, wa- o\ei, and. w hat was hat-T than all, slu-could nnui. <vi \ I'aul P>alis. She It'll -hangel.v. el.ih d It, wa- not niri-siu now to '_;o Lo Paul l>a(e-i a- a liinden on him -he would not no to his hou-e to take hiead iiom the mouths ol hiinoihoi and m4un to >u\i\ to the heavy luudett lie «,h c.v i vmg, but slie < ould go to him with wealth of lili ow n—she could be a help to him: She ( ould take him and lilt, him hoiu the h.ud lite he had lid into somethiiiL! higher and hettei—th.it .she had aspired to. What a -oul ->at l-hing tiling it I- |oi siu h a woman to ha\ c m hot hands the powei *odo s Oiuelhii>u toi such a man, when she lo\. s him It wasalltiiu that was at In-,t lepoi Utl in tail, the lv -I icpoit did not do it justue H »t/^ the laim st stuke th.it had been madt m the oil lemons The well was llowiuu a t ibulou- quanlits ot oil pet da\, and tin le was ivi ii t \ u'a-on to -uppo-e that theie could be a -eoie nioic just a- pio lil.ibh sunk on U-e> 1 aim The opetatoi-adv, UK ed Ml 111-i \as naieli iiioiic\ as he (h sued, oi, lathei. a- Mai\ desiud, toi -he was the actual head of tlu> tamih. and the fauul\ tmnuitheii backs lor e\ei on the old house. M.uy took a spacious itousc in Biownhelm and fmnishcd it with not only comfoit, but elegance Her biother.s and «-istei>> weie, without loss of time, placed at -chool-, mh h as the> were quahiied to entui —hei titlui and mothei, relieved ot tin tmible an\ietu-ui-i.p.i>able Mom (in a ti'imei condition, and iiom tin haul laboin that had bten tormeily netes-an to maintain lite, weie happ). And, loi the In ft time m hcilite, Mai> was happy. She had a natuial hkin<j for lu\tn\ i natuial. genuine appieciation ot it. She loved 11< h thm.tr- s|)'c loved things that <ii.>tilicd all tliiiHii-L>. Shebuedto be suTiouiifltd with lliinK- that niatilied h-i eve.md In l touch as well- she wa-an ai tist", and in nai-ie as naluial as a l>nd. She had tho-e now. and en]o^ed the m -not the\ulu;a.\ inio>ment ot meie po--e--i"n, but the aetu d eii|o\ment oi w hat was in them She M.td some knowledge of mn-ie ~hci piano told how quinine hei love ot it was, and how (apaiit\. She had putmesaud the book- -hede-ned, -iiid, what w.v-moie the leisuie to eii]o\ tin in As a matter ot eouise, she had wntten to Paul Hales ot hei new >oitune, and had askt d him to alum and many hei at once Theie w.i- no ' maidenly ie<-ene about hei She had let him leave hei because the\ could not iran> Now tlial the cruel impediment vas ieinosed, .-he wanted Jo many him as. M)on a- it was pos-ihlu foi him to lctum. And then the Rates family shaietl hei fiood toi tune. Tho\ knew, ot eiatisc, the lelation e\i-tini_ r between hei and I'aul, and they had no delicacy in acee))tinu aid tioin her. She took them tiom the uneomtoit able dwellinu into which thin sh.iilened eiieunistanees had loieed thun. and bioirjht them to hei own houce, and made them -haiei.sot hei comtoi l.s and hi\uues. • lolin Cassidy had, in tin meantime, si Mutely disa|)peaied lie ua.s si(un<_' in his oThe'e with Pol aid when the new's ol the st l ike came to him - and, much to Pol hud's, smpiise, he simply asked aslothe tiiiio of the next tiainea-(. ' Aic you f^oinu lo be lon^ ''' a.sked Pollaid' 'About a month. P>> that, limo the Elscv,s, will have become accustomed to then new way of living. One ot them, at all events, will be loth to j^ive it np, eh, Pollard? P>y the way, L need not caution you about silence in' that mattei of the mortoam;. The deed is on record piopeily^ but 1 (lo not wish them to know theie is any trouble ahead of them tor some little time to come. 1 know you will be discreet, PolL.ul. I think Icm tru.styou. (!ood bye, till 1 lciurn." And he went away. 'The cold-blooded villain,' mutteied Pollaid to himself, as Ca^dy disappeaicd. ' lie intends to t;i\e that a taste of ficedom —a ta.ste of a better lite than she has enjoyed <is j eb, tih.ifc tli<- Kill ma.> bo moie tc'nible. But .lohn C'assidv, yon shall not, trap her in that way. 1 will dicvent it —l have one way that is cci tain, il all else fails. Heaven keep me horn uiin till this is settled.' But I'ollaid did not appreciate the full CAtunlof Mr (Jnwmly'B far-icaching polity. lie had two motives for <roin£ away. One was to be out of the way, so that Mr Elsey could not tender him the money to redeem the faim from the mortgage on it, for a month or two. That was important to him. Ho had studied Alary Hl.scy carefully, and knew her bettor than she did herself. Some years before, the brave girl, full ot aspirations!, though with but little hope of "•ratifying any of them, had left her home and come to Brownholm to attend a school of a little hotter grade than the district school on the hills, doing the sowing in the family of a wealthy man for her boaid. While there, she had taken lessons in music, in which sho wus so capable that in

three months she had exhausted tho libtlo knowledge of Lho teacher, and in another month was capable of instructing her. Then folio hud enjoyed the Ueo of tho not largo, but choice collection of books her pattern had, nnd had run riot through them. In that little library, a new world had been opened to her. She hail feasted on the English classics. She had revelled with Irving. She had made the acquaintance «»J the great Dickens, and the incomparable Thackeray. She had read enough of history to give her a longing to know more. I 1 cis was a great, grasping, giocdy mind, tint needed constant feeding ; hois was. i gieal impiessiblo sout that needed constant yiatilieation. And in this house, with it- piano, its books, and itspictuies, she lound tood for hci mind and soul, and oxpeiicnced her lust horns oi content and happiness. Tine, io enjoy thi.s, she was compelled to lalioui like a galley ,-l.i\e. Sho was eonipclled to 1 1-0 bctoi c the sun, and to shoi ten hei houisoi sloe]) at- nijjit. J>ut that was nothing. One hour at her piano or witii her books -ho 01-teemedo 1 - teemed cheaply purchased wit h fi\ c at i.lio needle. [Jut she was not pel nutted to purchase what she- de-iied, e\en at this turible pi ice. She had got ju.st iar enough along in music to enable her to educate liei-eli (heiem ; she had got )U.st iai enough on in books to leah-e how vast was I, he woi Id of litei.ituiL beyond hei, and to id 1 that -he h..d -trench to ( \plore it, when she was leealled home. They hail li.nd tunes on Hl-ey Faun, and her cleai luad and o\au(n c abilit y w f ei o needed tos,i\e hei father horn i nin. Wh.d a change lor her' Thcic were no book-, no piano, no pietmi.-, nothing. Theio was w hat she had alieady know n — the ban means ot e\i-(in;j -not li\ inn ; a blank, dull, monotonous existence, 111110liexed by anything that made hie enjoyable lohei And it w. is a million times, uor.-o tor hit than before, hhe had tasted the sweets oi the new lite, and her return to the old one w .1-. lei ) ible. Ca— idv knew all this, lor it was during hei buef life at Jiiownhohn that, he fn-t met hei, and there that he had studied hei chaiactei He had lc.u ned her un((ucnchablc iltsiic toi know ledge, and hei lo\efot the bcMuliiul 111 lite, and he knew tho sullen a\ ci-ion w it h w hit h she legaided the lite which she led and to which a letuin was mo\ ltable. Hei letui n was ino\itable, beeau-c sin lealh wa- the head of the f.imils and without hei i< woidd all go to pieces He knew that love tor hei ]>co|)le w as abo\ c t he know iul^e -lit w as aujiui ing, and so 1 o\al w .is hei n.ituie th.it -he held hei-elt iead\ to -aenliee hot sell 101 lliein at any moment. And <'a--id> built his hope ot tuudlj po--o— ing her upon this \<_i\ Lji.uideiu in hei nature, llelxhcu'd that wlien lie a man at mone\ and < ultui c — should otki thi.s aspiiinj^ a home wbeie-inall(he-e ( luny should be, with help to iai>e hei lamily a- far as they weio capable ot boinj^ lai-cd, she would not hesitate a moment. He mi-calculated, as all selfish ■ tint! uiijn incipled men do- --lie wa- honest and Mituou- She did not lo\e him— -he , did lo\e anothei. And hence, when John (. ,i--uly olleied hei hi- hand, andsuch a home as she denned, she iehw<l them both tndiunanll^ . liut he -till behe\cd th.it , attoi -he had eii|o\ed loi a time th<> h.ippinc— that moiu \ bought hei, -he would not willin<J\ lelunjni-h it He b(lio\ed that w hen sl\e hail tlu.i ou^hl\ aeeu-tomed hei--elt to the lu\ui> ot an elegant tiome, of ekiMut attiu, ot book-, ot jnetuics and mu-ie : tint attei hei biothets and si-tei.s had been |)kiccd wheiethe\ could be educated and made %\lmt -lie de-ued, -be would make an\ -.imlice lat hei than ;^o back to ht r old hie, and dta«4 them down wit h hei. Thi- wa- tho key to Mi C'a— id\ - polie\, attei the di-eo\ei\ ot oil a- U w ,t- to kee p him-ell out ot then wuy till aft' t Mais had ta-iod oi In 1 nt^w |o>- totht tull Should he lemam at home, ol com-e Mr El^e) would tendei the mono\ tor themottga^e, which would neee--!t.tte his a— citing hilights undei lhedecd,and«piinging his ttaj) before his c'.imc wa.s f.iiil\ in it. Then, Mi ( as-id} had -ome bu-ine.*- to do, which Mi Poll.ud h.ul -ome mteie-t in. The a-(v\te mnu had.tvu -ome time, noticed a 1 e-tn c feeling in I'oll.n d, n Inch he feai t d, -ome da\. and that not tai di-tant, would buak oul to hi- danjjei. I'ollaid bad ac (|uned a j>i eat man} ot Mi ( a— id\ -seeiets, ,[\\(\ w a- danucuiu-, it not kept, eiihei 1^ k.u 01 lo\e, tnml\ attached tohim SoMr C,i--id\ concluded that the -ate tiling wato vet touethu the fact- to tiip Mi I'ollaid w heue\ei he -hould decide it best to do m"> So he went abioad to <;ou-ulf tho-ewho knew ot Mi l'olkud - aeeompliccs in the i.uboad lobbeiie-, who had -ulleiedloti^ cnouult to b.i\ c toi uotten aH idea-ot houoiit . and who would be willing to te-tits d\ntliin<j, a^am-t an\boil\ tor thoii ticedom. A- he wa- compelled to ab-ent hnnselt fiom hi- home toi .1 time in t.utheianee ot hi- pi. in in ie<_Mid to Miii\ T".l-e\, hedeteiminod to 1 mplo\ hi- liiihm'u linn ic.kK toi the ch-tiu'jtion of l'ollaul when that should -eem the piojiei thinu to do. And so Mi ( ,i—id\ p.U'ked hi- \aii-o eheei t ull> , and -te})]»ed ai)o.ud Ibe (at-* 111 a jilea-aiii tiame ot mind — "nut went aw .\\