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Jl YEL*lx0W 4- By these suggestions of Mr. Qedge it will be seen that Gwen’s leaven was working. BY © IOTA. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER VIII. The ins and outs and general details of Gwen’s plan of cam paign would in no wise interest much less edify the moral read er. It is enough that the plan was a brilliant success, and its organization and execution would have done credit to the Prince of Darkness himself. Her tactics were by no means volcanic, they were resolute, gradual, and in a way scrip tural, line upon line, precept upon precept, first the seed, then the blade, then the full corn in the ear. When the ini tial steps were passed, just leav ing the air wel! charged with vague apprehension, and the minds of men ripe for some new development, active measures set in, in a careless, unconscious sort of way, as if the divine or der of things had just received a passing jar, no more, but then this jar continued and increased and grew in dimensions till the very bones of the jarred shook in their skins, and it was as much as their souls could do to hold themselves in their bodies. Three months after the plan’s inception, the amazing going-on of Dacre, the wild originality of his pranks, the consistent sus tained diableie of his outbursts, the terrible all-pervadingness of his personality, had succeed ed in completely upheaving the souls of his parents and filling the entire household with a fearful sense of insecurity, as of a community conscious of the presence amongst them of an invisible infernal machine, that moves by some hidden power, all over, everywhere, and can neither be caught nor compass ed. Mr. and Mrs. Fellowes, who kept a close eye on the affairs of the Hall children, had felt now for some time that there was too much subtlety in this departure of Dacre’s to be all his own. “The days of devil possession a-e gone; I could swear it's Gwen,” said Mrs. Fellowes one day, smiting her small hands together and dropping a child’s petticoat on which she was sew ing a button. “I’ve been thinking so for some time,” said her husband, “all the same, I hardly see where the ‘swear’ mends mat ters.” “Oh, never mind! When a woman’s perturbed, she often relapses into original sin, it’s a full year since I ‘reckoned’— ‘swear’ at least is cosmopolitan. I’ll go up this minute and get to the truth of this, Gwen hasn't been near me for a fortnight, and I’ve been so busy, you see, I couldn’t go near them.” “I shall go too, I must get a subscription for those miserable Gows from Waring, but, little woman, hadn’t you better lie down? Ater five nights up with Jim Brown, even you must want rest!” “Lie down! No, no; with this on my mind, why I couldn’t rest a minute.” After a rather ineffectual at tempt to bring Mrs. Waring to a decent flesh and blood consis tency, Mrs. Fellowes retreated to the school room. “She grows worse and worse,” she muttered, as she let out some of her feelings in a sharp rap on the door. Mr. Gedge, the present in structor, was not her husband’s choice, he was launched on the children by a well-meaning uncle of Mrs. Waring’s, who from time to time swooped down on the family in a protective, if rather hawk-like fashion, and invariably set some reform afloat among man or beast. In this last visit lie had let Gedge loose in the school-room. The man was as little fitted to deal with the plan’s ramifica tions as a babe unborn. When Mrs. Fellowes went in she got a howl of welcome from Dacre, Gwen gave her only a quiet handshake, but the warm light that flashed into her cold eyes told more than any howl. Mr. Gedge stood up wearily and looked pleased. “Do sit down,” said he cast ing a furtive, fearful glance on Dacre. He was in constant horrid dread of a new sensation, they were so diverse, so swift in suc cession, one never knew when one might not come on, and it might be embarrassing if set going in the presence of a lady. Dacre, however, his familiar being otherwise engaged, was J uiescent, and Gedge breathed reer. “May I have Gwen for the af ternoon?” asked Mrs. Fellowes. She was amazed to see the hesitation on Gwen’s face and the actual look of dismay on Dacre’s, but she speedily fath omed the reason. “I knew it,” she said to her- gelf, "Gwen is the mover in the whole business.” Then aloud, “Gwen, you will come, dear, Mr. Gedge’s eyes have said ‘yes’ already.” Mr. Gedge had a lively though bashful admiration for the little American, he beamed his assent in quite a sprightly way. “It will be one less to cope with,” he reflected, “and I can perhaps get my poor Amy’s letter finish ed.” The devil, in a specially evil moment had revealed to Mr. Gedge’s pupils the existence of this sweet young woman, and had thereby added another hun dred weight to the millstone al ready encircling the neck of her affianced. Mrs. Fellowes looked sudden sympathy at the young man, then with twinkling eyes at his charges, he seemed so ludicrous ly out of proportion to his task. “Poor thing’” She thought it with such amused vehemence it almost got spoken aloud. “Poor thing, you shall have a peaceful afternoon for once!” “Mr. Gedge, do give me Dacre too, do, just for one day! He shall go for a ride with Mr. Fellowes.” “Ohj golly!” muttered Dacre, dancing in his glee. Gwen’s face grew brilliant with joy, she could now go with an easy conscience, she couldn’t by any possibility have left Dacre alone, he was too utterly “an ass.” She could now have a whole long afternoon to be happy in; she needn’t think once all the time, only just laugh and play and let herself be kissed—she never by any chance ventured a kiss on her own account—and she would feel Mrs. Fellowes’ soft hands on her head—she always brush ed her hair for tea—and hear her soft voice, and it would stay in her ears making little tunes; and the Rector, he would be good too, and remain in the drawing-room after tea—he al ways did when they came—he was always kind and he told such funny stories. Gwen’s contained joy broke out in a prolonged “Oh!” Mrs. Fellowes looked rapidly round the handsome room and out into the Park, the finest in the country, and back to the child’s face. “It is abominable, abomin able,” she thought angrily, “just to be away from the place for a few hours transforms the child, she is simply beautiful this minute with that look—oh, it is brutal! Gwen, love, run at once and put on your things, and, Dacre, run down in the porch, I’ll tell Mr. Fellowes you are going with him.” As soon as the children were gone she said kindly: “Mr. Gedge, you’ll have a re spite any way.” “Mrs. Fellowes,” he burst out, “I am coming to set the rector, I have endeavored, and I truly hope conscientiously, to do my duty, but I find my pres ent position altogether unten able. I am not a very strong man, Mrs. Fellowes, ai d I find this life is fast undermining my constitution.” He paused for a moment; then he went on hurriedlv, in a sud den impulse of confidence: “Mrs. Fellowes, forgive my troubling you with my affairs but you are so very kind,—I have hopes, very dear hopes, and from various strange sen sations in the region of my heart when my struggles with Dacre have been specially try ing and prolonged, I have rea son to fear some fundamental lesion of the organ.” Mr. Gedge had just been read ing up the heart in some medi cal journal, he had also lately ascertained that his maternal aunt had Aie&ot Angina-pector is so he was naturally upset in his mind. “If one has hopes, Mrs. Fel lowes,” he went on sadly, “one’s duty seems to be to guard against anything that must interfere with such hopes, always sup posing them to be lawful and right.” “Indeed, I quite agree with you,” said Mrs. Fellowes with much heartiness, and with an unholy tendency to laughter, “I agree with you, and no doubt as is the way of such things, J our hopes are bound up in the opes and happiness of another. For her sake alone you must consider your position serious ly.” “Yes, I will turn my thoughts to some other sphere of action, but before I leave here,” he added with solemn resolve, “1 deem it my duty to my employ ers to represent to them the ur gent advisability of sending my elder pupil to a public school—I know you agree with me in this, Mrs. Fellowes?” “Agree with you! why, we have been fighting for it for years.” “Then I mav rely on vou and your husband’s help in this mat ter?” ho asked, looking rather askew admiration at her through his eyeglasses. He had received a slight in jury to one eye in his youth, and according to Dacre it was now “a game one.” The decree had gone forth, and Dacre was to go to Eton. Ancestral taint and sisterly guile had won the day, though not without a tough struggle. The idea of home culture, vague and ill-defined as it was, died hard, and Mr. and Mrs. Waring still bemoaned their fate daily in the intervals of work. They were row much disturb ed in their minds concerning the plan of religion which they had conceived in the tender youth of their offspring, and which had been worked up to with rather more consistency than usually characterized ihose plans of theirs that dealt with outside and minor matters. That it should have occurred to Henry and Grace Waring was the most remarkable part of this plan. They both looked upon religion as they did upon art, as a thing apart and on a somewhat low level, to be con sidered in leisure hours. In some phases of mind they might indeed almost have been said to glory in it. and to rejoice that the ages should own such a her itage, just as one might rejoice in the work of a great master. They were, of course, both too appreciative of goo<Hiterature to have neglected the Bible, they knew every twist and turn in it as they did of the Koran and the Brabminic Vedas. As for doubts and things of that sort, they never, so to speak, went in for them, their minds were not of that order. In the same way the truths or the untruths of Christianity seemed to them an interesting enough study between hours. In Mrs. Waring’s case perhaps, they appealed fitfully to some part of herself she never quite understood, that same senti mental part that often suffered a keen stab,—for instance in the case of the Rectory babies, and sometimes from a strange look in Gwen’s face. But she had almost ceased to speculate upon these odd sensations, and was inclined to put them down to a strain of puritan blood that had somehow trickled into the more vigorous fluid of her fight ing forebears, which perhaps might almost account for her preference for Christianity over other creeds. It will be seen that the re ception or rejection of Christ ianity by their children, was a matter of no vital importance to these parents. They were, however, intensely interested in the result itself, that was quite another thing; the phases of mind the function must un fold seemed certainly a subject worth research, and filled them with the keenest interest. You are ouite sure, dearest,” said Mr. Waring, a few days before Dacre’s departure was to take place, “that Mary has not tampered with the minds of our children.” “I am certain, quite certain. She has certainly seemed to re sent my orders in this matter, but she has not disobeyed them.” Mrs. Waring sat down and tried to take up the thread of her thoughts, but it was broken again in a minute by Mr. War ing pushing back his chair sud denly, and looking at her in a disturbed, restless way. She went over, laid her hand on his shoulder and looked anxiously into his face. “Are you troubled, love, can I not help you?” “I should be glad my Grace if I felt more convinced that the minds of our children are really a blank as far as any knowledge of religion goes.” “I am sure Mr. and Mrs. Fel lowes—” “Dearest, the idea is revolt ing! And his wife! She is your friend, that is sufficient.” He bowed as his grandfather, the courtliest man in a courtly court might have done. “But I fear that when very youngthechild- ren may have received foreign impressions, the class that peo ple the stableyard are often quite versed in what they term ‘the truths of the Gospel.’ ” “But so long ago?” “Not so very long ago after all, and impressions are most tenacious things, more especial ly erroneous ones. Does the fact not hamper us daily, dear est? Even this moment,” he went on musingly, “after all these years, I can recollect praying at my mother’s knee with a quite astonishing fervor, which now seems next to rea sonless, and yet I doubt if the impression of that fervor will ever leave me.” “We can only hope, dearest,” she said. Her husband’s fear depressed her, she was feeling just then, and rather to her cost, how very remarkably clinging old impressions were. They were hovering round her at that very moment, and entwining her in a maze of the old dead visions of dead days, when she was a child herself and wore long lav.n nightgowns with frilled sashes, and said prayers. She went over to the fire to make it up and ended by putting it out. “Oh, Henry,” she said at last, from tne hearthrug, shivering a little, “what if, after all, we might just as well have allowed our children to run along the common groove like those very fat children of Mrs. Manners’,— they seem wholesome and not devoid of intelligence. And then they are handsome and well grown, yet the boy is ten and not even in Latin; Mrs. Manners considers that in ten years the fact will make no difference in his career. On the contrary look at Dacre, think of the load of anxiety and thought we have expended upon him and yet—” She broke off sadly. Her husband regarded her for a minute with sympathizing eyes. “Dearest,” he said at last softly, “you are apt to forget the fact that our poor Dacre is —I hate to hurt vou, dear, but you know it—he is most unfort unately a throwing-back, and must follow the fate of his kind. He must enter the army,—it is deplorable, but so it must be.” “The army!” murmured the small woman wringing her hands softly, “it is sad, it is hard on you. I do think, dear est, we might have been more successful in our children.” “Our child,” interrupted her husband. 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MIXED TRAIN Leave Hartsvllle 5.30 a m Jovann 5.45 a m Floyd's 6.05 a m Darlington 6.25 am Palmetto 6.40 a m Arrive Florence 7.00 a m Leave Florence 7.35 p m Palmetto 7.50 p m Darlington 8.20 p m Floyus 8.40 p m Jovann 8.65 pm Hartsville 9.10pm J F. DIVINE. Gen. Snpt. C HARLESTON, SUMTER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver. In Effect Jun. 16, 1894 NORTH. SOUTH. 9 8 P.M. P.M. Lv 4.10 Charleston 2.30 Ar 5.20 Pregnall’s 1.10 7 25 Sumter 11.02 8.37 Darlington 9.50 9 29 Beunettsville 9.00 9.52 Gibson 8.37 Ar 10.20 Hamlet 8.10 Lv P.M A.M. No. 9 connects at Hamlet with S. A. L. Vestibule train /or Raleigh. Rich mond. Washington, Baltimore, Phil adelphia and New York. No 8 connects with S. A. L. Vesti bule train from above named points. Trains run solid to and from Charles ton. C. MILLARD, Superintendent. D. and C. A S. RAILROADS. In effect June 3, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Wadesboro 2.00 p m Bennett’s 2.25 p m Morven’s 2.40 p m McFarland 2 55 p m Cheraw 3.45 p m Cash's 4.10 pm Society Hill 4.40 p m Dove’s 5.10 pm Floyd’s 5.30 pm Darlington 6.05 p in Palmetto 6.20 p m Arrive Florence 6.45 p m Leave Florence 7.35 a w Palmetto 8.00 a m Darlington - 8.35 a m Floyd's - 9.00 a m Dove's 9 15 a m Society Hill 9 45 a m Cash's 10.15 a m Cheraw 11.00 a m McFarland 11.40 a m Morven's 11.55 a m Bennett’s 12.10 am Arrive Wadesboro 12.30 a m Local Freight. Leave Darlington 4.30 pm Palmetto 4.42 p in Arrive Florence 5 00 pm Leave Florence 8.80 a in Palmetto 8.50 a m Arrive Darlington 9.05 a m A. F. RAVENEL. President. N ORTHEASTERN RAILROAD, In effect June 8, 1894. SOUTH BOUND. No. 61 Leave Florence 7 45 a m Klngstree 9.20 am Lanes 9.43 a in Arrive Charleston 12.10 a m No. 35. Leave Florence 3.10 a m Lanes 4.20 a m Arrive Charleston 6.10 a m No. 28. Leave Florence 7.45 p m Klngstree 9.02 p m Irfines 9.23 p m Arrive Charleston 11.18 p m No. 53. 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