The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 13, 1888, Image 1

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Aug 10 o C. 0. BROWN i Bill)., COLUMBIA, S. C. SASH & BLINDS.! LATHS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER. j AND HAIR, j Frencli and Afflerica? Winflow Glass, I PAINTS, OILS I .1 AND VARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD, The Best in the Market. Special Attention Given to Orders j by Mail. C. 0. BROWN & BRO., Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA. S. C. Oct 5-0 Ey HENRY JAMES, Jr. Di TWO PARTS.-. , [Copyrighted;] 1 CONTINUED, i PART IL One afternoon, when the picture was nearly finished, John Lennox went into the empty painting room to ascertain the degree of its progress. Both Baxter and Marian had ex? pressed a wish that bc should not seo it in its early stages, and this, accordingly, was his first viow. Half an hour after he had en? tered the room, Baxter came in, unan? nounced, and found him sitting beforo the C?mvas, deep in thought. Baxter had been furnished with a house key, so that be might have iiumediato and easy access to his work whenever thc humor carno upon him. '.I was passing," he said, "and I couldn't resist tho impulse to como in and correct an ?rror which I made this morning, now that ?sense of its enormity is fresh in my mind." He sat down to work, and the other stood watching him. "Well," said thc painter, finally, "how does it satisfy you?"' "Not altogether."' "Pray develop your objections. It's in your power materially to assist me." "I hardly know how to formulate my ob? jections. Let me, at all events, in tho first place, say that I admire your work im? mensely. Fra sure it's the best picture you've painted." "I honestly believe it is. Somo parts of it," said Baxter, frankly, "are excellent." "Ifs obvious. But either those very parts or others are singularly disagreeable. That word isn't criticism, I know; but I pay you for the right to bc arbitrary. They arc too hr.rd, too strong, of too frank a reality. In a word, your picture frightens me, and if I were ??arian I should feel as if j'ou'd.done mc a certain violence." "fm sorry for what's disagreeable: but I meant it all to be real. I go in for reality: you must have seen that." "I approve you: I can't too much admire thc broad and firm methods you've taken for roaching this same reality. But you can bo real without being "brutal-without attempt? ing, as one may say, to bc actual."' "I deny thatTm brutal. I'm afraid, Mr. Lennox, I haven't takcrrquiic tho right road to please yon. I've taken thc picture too much au s?rieux. I've striven too much for completeness. But if it doestft please you it will please others." "I've no doubt of it. But that isn't the question. The picture is good enough to bo a thousand times better." "That the picture leaves room for infinite improvement, I, of course, don't deny; and, in several particulars, I see my way to make it better. But, substantially, thc portrait is there. I'll tell you what you miss. My work isn't 'classical:' in fine, I'm not a i?an of genius." "No: I rather suspect you are. But, as you saj', your work isn't classical. I adhere to my "term brutal. Shall I tell you? It's too much of a study. You've given poor Miss Everett the look of a professional modeL" "If that's ?he case I've done very wrong. There never was an easier, a less conscious sitter. It's delightful to look at her." "Confound it, you've given all her ease, too. "Well, I don't know what's the matter. I give tip." "I think," said Baxter, "you had better hold your verdict in abeyance until thc pict? ure is finished. The classical clement is there, I'm sure; but I've not brought it out. "Wait a few days, and it will rise to the sur? face." Lennox loft the artist alone: and the latter took up his brashes and painted hard till , nightfall. He laid them down only when it j was too dark to see, As ho was going out, j Lennox met him in thc hall. "Exegi moaumentum," said Baxter; "it's finished. Ck> and look at your case. I'll come to-morrow and hear your impressions." Tho mastor of tho house, whoa tho other had gone, ht half a dozen lights and re? turned to the study of the picture. It had grown prodigiously under the painter's re? cent handling, and whether it was that, as Baxter had said, the classical element had disengaged itself, or that Lennox was ia a moro sympathetic mood, it now impressed him as an original and powerful werk, a genuine portrait, tho deliberate imago of a human face and figure. It was Marian, in very truth, and Marian most patiently meas? ured and observed. Her beauty was there, her sweetness, and her young loveliness and her aerial grace, imprisoned forever, matle in? violable and perpetual. Nothing could be moro simple than the conception and com? position of the picturo. Thc figure sat peace fully, looking slightly to tho right, with tho head erect and tho hands-thc virginal bauds, without rings or bracelets-lying idlo on its knees. Thc blonde bair was gathered into a littlo knot of braids on the top of thc head (in tho fashion of the moment), and left free the almost childish contour of tho ears and checks. The eyes w&re full of color,"contentment and light; thc rips were faintly parted. Of color?n the picture, there was, in strictness, very little; but tho dark draperies told of reflected sunshine, and the flesh spaces of human blushes and pallors, of throbbing life and health. The work was strong and simple, tho figure was thoroughly void of affectation and stiffness, and yet supremely elegant. "That's w-hat it is to bc an artist," thought Lennox. "All this has been dono in the past two hours." It was his Marian, assuredly, with all that had charmed him-with all that still charmed him when ho saw her; her appealing confi? dence, her exquisite lightness? her feminine enchantments. And yet, as he looked, an expression of pain carno into his eyes, and lingered there, and grew into a mortal heavi? ness. Lennox had been as truly a lover as a man may be; but he loved with tho discretion of fifteen years' experience of human affairs. He had a penetrating glance, and ho liked to use it. Man}- a time when Marian, with elo? quent lips and eyes, had poured out the treas- ' ures of her nature into his bosom, and he bad i taken them in his hands and covered thom ? with kisses and passionate vows; ho had i dropped them all with a sudden shudder aud j cried out in silence, "But ab! where is tho I heart?' One day he had said to her (irrele? vantly enough, doubtless), "Marian, where is ? your heartV "Where-what do you mean f Miss Everett | had said. ! "I think of yo\i from morning till night. I ! put you together and take you apart, a* pee- 1 pie do in that game whore they make words ! out of a parcel of given letters. But there's . always ono letter wanting. I can't put my ! hand or. your heart." "My heart, John," said Marian, Ingen- I iousij-, "is tho whole word. My heart's every? where." This may have been true enough. Miss Everett had distributed her heart impartially ! through!-ut her whole organism, so that, ns a i natural consequence, its native seat was somewhat scantily occupied. As Lennox sat ; and looked at Baxter's consummate hamil- j work, the Rime question rose again to his j lips rand if Marian's portrait suggested it, j Marian's portrait failed to answer it. It?<*>k ' Marian to do that, lt seemed to Lennox that ' some strangely potent:agency had won from ' his mistress the confession ??f her inmost i soul, anti had written it there upon the can- j vns in lirra yet passionate lines. Marian's I person was lightness-hor charm was light- ' ness; could it l?e that her soul WHS levity too? : Was she a creature without faith and with- j ont conscience? What else was the meaning ', of t hat horrible blankness and dead ness that ; quenched the light in her eyes and stole away j the smile from ber lips? These things wero \ the less to be eluded because in many respects the painter had been profoundly just. He I bad been as loyal and sympathetic as ho had ; been intelligent. Not a point in the young j girl's appearance had been slighted; not a j feature but had been forcibly and delicately 1 rendered. Had Baxter been a maa of mar- j v?l??s insight-an unparalleled observer; or had he been a mere pat?fcn t and unflinching : painter, building infinitely better than ho knew? Would not a mere painter have been co?tent to paint Miss Everett in tho strong, rich, objective manner of which the work was so good an example, and to do nothing more? For it was evident that Baxter had done more. Ho had painted with something more than knowledge-with imagination, with feeling. He had almost composed; and Iiis composition had embraced the truth. Lennox was unable to satisfy his doubts. He would have been glad to believe that there was no imagination in the picture but what his own mind supplied; and that thc unsub? stantial sweetness on thc eyes and lips of the imago was but tho smile of youth and inno cenco. He was in a muddle-ho was absurdly suspicious and capricious; he put out the lights and left the portrait in kindly dark? ness. Then, half as a roparation to his mis? tress, and half as a satisfaction to himself, ho went up to spend an hour with Marian. She, at least, as he found, had no scruples. She thought tho portrait altogether a success, and she was very willing to be lianded down in that form to posterity. Nevertheless, when Lennox carno in he went back into the painting room to take another glance. This time ho lit but a single light. Faugh! it was worse than with a dozen. He hastily turned out the gas. Baxter <xime the next day, as he had promised; Meanwhile poor Lennox had had twelve liours of uninterrupted reflection, and thc expression of distress in his eyes hud ac? quired an intensity which, thc painter saw, proved it to bo of far other import than a mere tribute to his power. "Can tho man be jealous T thought Bax? ter. Stf?ben liad been so inrocent of any Other design than that of painting a good poitrait, :<hat his conscience failed to reveal to him the source of his companion's trouble. Nevertheless, he began to pit}- him. He had felt tempted, indeed, to pity him from tho first. He had liked him and esteemed him : he had taken him for, a man of sense and of feeling, and he had thought it a matter of regret that such a man-a creature of strong spiritual needs-should link his destiny with that of Marian Everett. But he had very soon made up his mind that Lennox know very well wh^he was about, and that he needed no enlightenment. He was marrying with his eyes open and had weighed the risks against the profits. Every one had his par? ticular taste, and at 05 years of age John Lennox had no need to be told that Miss Everett was not quite all that she might bo. Baxter had thus taken for granted that his friend had designedly selected as his second wife a mero pretty woman-a woman with a genius for receiving company, and who would make a picturesque use of his money. He knew nothing of tho serious character o? thc poor man's passion, nor of the extent to which his happiness was bound up hi what the painter would hare called his delusion. His only concern had been to do his work well; and he liad done it bettor be? cause of his old interest in Marian's be? witching face. It is very certain that he had actually infused into his pict? ure that force of characterization and that depth of reality which had arrested his friends' attention; but he had done so wholly without effort or with? out malice. The artistic half of Baxter's na? ture exerted a lusty dominion over the hu? man half-fed upon its disappointments and grew fat upon its joys and tribulations. This, indeed, is simply saying that the young man was a true artist. Deep, then, iii tho unfathomed recesses of his strong and sensi? tive nature, his genius lind held commun? ion with his heart and had transferred to canvas tho burden of its disenchantment and its resignation. Since his little a?lair with Marian, Baxter had rando tho acquaintance of a young girl whom he felt that he coxild love and trust forever; and. sobered and strengthened by this new emotion, bc had boen able to resume with moro distinctness the shortcomings of his earlier icve. Ile had, therefore, painted with feeling. Miss Everett could not have expected him to do other? wise. Ho had done his honest best, and con? viction hau come i:i unbidden and made it 'better. Lennox had begun to feel vcr}- curious about the history of his companion's ac? quaintance with his destined bride; but he was far from feeling jealous. Somehow he felt that he couid never again be jealous. But in ascertaining tho terms of their for? mer intercourse *it was cf importance that he should not allow the young man to suspect he had discovered in the ]x>rtrait any radical defect. "Your old acquaintance with 3iiss Ever? ett," he said, frankly, "has evidently been of great uso to you.*' "I suppose it lias," said Baxter. "Indeed, as soon as I br?gan te paint. I found her face" coming back to me like a half remembered tune. She was wonderfully pretty at that time.-' . "She was two years younger." "Yes, and I was two years younger. De? cidedly, you are right. I have made usc o? my old impressions." Baxter was willing to confess to so much; but ho resolved not to betray anything that Marian had herself kept secret, lie was not surprised that she had not told her lover o? her former engagement; he expected as much. But he would have held it inexcusa? ble to attempt to repair her omission. . Lennox's faculties were acutely sharpened by pain and suspicion, and he could not help detecting in his companion's eyes an inten? tion of reticence. He resolved to bailie ir.. "I am curious to know," he said, "whether you were ever in love with Miss Everett.'-' "1 have no hesitation in saying Yes," re? joined Baxter: fancying that a general con fession would help him moro than a particu? lar denial. "I am one of a thousand, I fancy. Or one, perhaps, of only a hundred. For you eec I've got over it. Pm engaged to be mar? ried." J^enr.ox's countenance '.frightened. "That's it," said he. "Now I know what I didn't liko in,your picture-tho point of view. I'm not jealous." bc added, "i should like the picture better if I wer.'. You evidently care noth? ing for the jxx>r girl. You have* got over your love rather to< ? weil. You loved her, she was indifferent to you. and now you take your revenge.'' Distracted with gri.f, Lennox wa.? talcing refuge in irrational anger. Baxter wns puzzled. "You'd admit," said be with a smile, "that is a very hrmdsomo re? venge/1 A url al 1 his professional self esteem rose to his assistance. "I've painted for Miss Everett the best portait that has-yet been painted in America. She herself is quilo Kilisfied." "Ah !"' said Lennox, with a inngmficcntdis s: mutation; "Marian is-generous.? "Come, then," s:id Baxter; "what do you i complain off Yon accuse me of scandalous ! condiKT, and I'm l?oimd to hold you to an ac- I count." i'axter's own temper w;i.s rising, j and with ithis sense of his picture's merits. ; "How have t perverted Miss Everett's ex- ! pression' How have I misrepresent ed her) ] Who; d<?es th<- portrait lack? Is ir, iii drawn? j Is it vu!j?ar? I? it. aiu?ti^nous? ls it ininVod- ! rsi." Baxter's patience gave oti? :is l?e i reciter! these vanousonar<;es. "i'iddles'iieks!* j ho cried; "you know HS weil ?is I do that tho ! pict ure is excellent." | "i don't pretend to deny if.. Only ? wonder > that:?'Marian wss v.illing to come Lo y ou." It is very much to !'>::x!' r's eiv-dit that he ; still adhered to hisre:'oi?iti;ci uot Jo betray : thoyoung giri, and thal rallier than d<> so he was >vi'li:i ; to let L "unox suppose ti mt bo had been a t eje''ted adorer. "Ah. as V"U say."' he exclaimed, "Miss , Everett is so generous?" j I.enn<*:: was :.. -o.? eaoiv^i t-> mho this :;s ! en admission. "Whoa I . -.y. Mr. !;.I:,?.T,' h. said, "that .von have talco i your revenge. I don't iv.ev.i that you'v:* d??ao wcn?on?v or e<m-.. iously My dear fe?ow. how could : vo.j hei;> i'.' '?"'O dL<ttppoi:;tme:'i was pr ? ?.? ..fionate j.. ; he ioss au ! the tv..'.-- ion t< ? tho . disa*'P,ih,tm,:nu" ..\Vs. that's ali very well; but. meair.vhile, ] I wait in vain to learn wherein I've dono wrong. ' "Lennox looked from Baxter to the pict? ure, and from the picture lack to Baxter. | "I defy yon to tell me," said Baxter. "I've simply kept Mis-; Everett as charm tug as she rs in life." j "Oh. damn her charms!" cried Lennox; "If you were not the gentleman, Mr. Len? nox," continued tue youngman, *-\?m--u spite of your high, tenmer^tbehg^^^^fc bo, I should believe you " "Well, you should believe mcf "I should believe you simply bent on cheap ening the portrait." Lennox made a gesture of vehement impa tieuce. The other burst out laughing ant the discussion closed. Baxter instinctively took up his brushes and approached his can vas with a vague desire to detect laten errors, while Lennox prepared to tako his de? parture. '.Stay!" said the painter, as lie was leavim the room; "if the picture- really o?ends you Eil rab it out. Say tho^vord," and he tool up a heavy brus.'l, covered with black paint But Lennox shook his head with decision and went out. Tho next moment however ho reappeared. "You may ru!) it out," he said. "The picture is, of course, alreadv mine." But now Baxter shook his hoad. "Ah! now it's too late," he answered. "Youl chance is gr.no." Lennox repaired dhvetly to Mr. Everett's apartments. Marian was in the drawing room with somo morning callers, and her lover sat by until she had got rid of them When they were alone together Marian began to laugh at her visitors and to parody certain of their affectations, which sho did with in? finite grace and spirit. But Lennox cut her short and returned to tho portrait. He had thought better of his objections of the pro ceding evening; he liked it. "But I wonder, Marian," he said, "that you were willing to go to Mr. Baxter?" "Why soi'' asked Marian, on her guard. She saw that her lover knew something, and she intended not to commit herself until she knew how much ho knew. "An old lover is always dangerous." "An old lover;" and Marian blushed a good honest blush. But she rapidly recov? ered herself. "Pray where did you get that charming news?" "Oh. it slipped out," said Lennox. Marian hesitated a moment. Then with a smile: "Well, I was brave," she said. "I went." "How came it," pursued Lennox, "that you didn't tell mei"' "Tell you what, my dear John?" "Why, about Baxter's little passion. Come, don't bo modest." Modest! Marian breathed freely. "What do you mean, my dear, by telling your wife not to be modest? Pray don't ask me about Mr. Baxter's passions. What do I know about them?" "Did you know nothing of this one?" "Ah, my dear, I know a great deal too much for my comfort. But he's got bravely over it. He's engaged." "Engaged, but not quite disengaged. Ho's an honest fellow, but he remembers his pen? chant. It was as much as ho could do to keep his picture from turning to the senti? mental. Ile saw you as he fancied you-as ho wished you ; and ho has gi von you a little look cf what he imagines moral loveliness, which comes within an aco of spoiling the picture. Baxter's imagination isn't very strong, and this same look expresses, in point of fact, nothing but inanity. Fortunately he's a man of extraordinary talent, and a real painter, and he's mada a good portrait in spite of himself." To such arguments as these was John Len? nox reduced, to stifle the cvidenco of his .;enses. But when once a lover begins to doubt he cannot cease at will In spite of his earnest efforts to believe in Marian as be? fore, to accept her without scruple and with? out second thought, ho was quite unable to repress an impulse of constant mistrust and aversion. The charm was broken, and there is no mending a charm. Lemiox stood naif aloof, watching the poor girl's countenance, weighing her words, analyzing her thoughts, guessing at her motives. Marian's conduct under this trying ordeal was truly heroic. She felt that some subtle change had taken place in her future hus? band's feelings, a chango which, although sho was powerless to discover its cause, yet obviously imj>erilcd her prospects. Some? thing had snapped between them; she had lost half of her power. She was horribly distressed, and the more so because that su? ltrier depth of character which she had all along gladly conceded to Lennox, might no.v, as she conjectured, cover soroo bold and portentous design. Could bc meditate a di? rect rupture.' Could it bo his intention to dash from her lips the sweet, thc spiced and odorous cup of being thc wife of a good natured millionaire? Marian turned a trem? ulous glance upon her past, and wondered if he had discovered any dark spot. Indeed, for that matter, might sho not defy him to do so? She had done nothing really amiss. There was no visible blot in her history. It was faintly discolorcdj^ndeed, by a certain vague moral dinginess: "but it compared well enough with that of other girls. She had cared for nothing but pleasure; but to what else were girls brought up? On the whole, might 6he not feel at ease? She assured her? self that sho might; but sh? nevertheless felt that if John wished to break off his engage? ment, he would do it on high abstract grounds, and not because she had committed a np.ughtir.css the moro or the loss. It would be simply because ho had ceased to love her. It would avail her but little to assuro him that she would kindly overlook this circum? stance and remit thc obligations of tho heart. But, in spite of her hideous apprehensions, she continued to smile and smile. The days passed by, and John consented to be still engaged. Their marriago was only a week off-six days, five days, four. Miss Everett's smile became loss mechanical, John had apparently bern passing through a crisis -a moral and inSslIccttial crisis, inevitable in a man of his constitution, and with which the hail nothing t*? du. On the eve of mar? riage he had questioned his heart; he had found that it was no longer young and capa? ble of the vagaries of passion, and he had made up his mind to call things by their proper names, and to admit to himself that he was marrying not for love, but for friend? ship, and a. little, perhaps, for prudence; It was only out of regari 1 for what he supposed Marian's own more exalted theory of tho matter, that he abstained from revealing To her tl dr. common sense view of it. Such was Marian's hypothesis. Lennox had fixed his wedding day for the last Thursday in Octolier. On the preceding Friday, as ho was passing up I>r<<ad\vay. ho stomped at CoupiPa to see if his order for the framing of tue jiortrait had been fulfilled. The pi."turi' had l?*on transferred to tb? shop, and. when daly framed had been, nt Baxter's request and with Lennox's consent, placed for a few days in the exhibition room. Len? nox went up to look at it. The portrait stood on nu easel at the end of the hall, with three spectators before it a gentleman and two ladies. The room was otherwise empty. As Lennox went toward the i ?iciur.\ the gentleman turned out to IK1 Baxter. II;?proceeded toinr.r??tluceh:s friend t > his t wo companions, the younger of whom Lennox recognized as the artist's U-frothed. Th" other, her sister, was a plain, pale woman, with the look of iii health, who had h'-en provided with a seat nv.tl r.ui.-e no nt tempt to talk. Baxter explained that these ladies had arrived fr?>:n Europe but the dav Ivfore. aii l that his first care had been to show them his nuis?er;eeco. "Sarah." said he, "lia : been praising the model very much to the prejudice of the Sarah war: a tell, black barred girl ci CO, with irregular fo{???ri?s. a pair of luminous I dark cy< .., and a snide radiant ol' win';.' j teeth evidently an excellent person. She ; turned t.> Lennox with a loo!; of frank syn: pathv. and .-"aid in :\ deep, re h voico: "Shojiinst he very beautiful." \*Y?-:.. she's very beautiful;** said f/mnox". with his eyes lingering on I it .!*..? v.Jji ? ?. . :.. i : U face: "Yoii JUiis; ?CHOW her-^"he taus; know ; vom" "i*::i sure T should like vcrv much to :;ee j h.- '." sai.I Sarah. .*Th:s ts very nearly os good.**.aaid L a- : ito rc; "Mi*. I ?a vier is a jrroat ?. en ?si .." "1 know Mr. Baxter isa geVriu::. ?h;? what j i ; a picture, at the best; I've seen nothing | lint puiure-i for the las; two wara, ;i::d J j h.tw-.i'i seen e. singlo pretty gi lr " The young girl st ood looking at the port ral j | in very evident admiration, and ? ?ile Baxter I talked to thc elder lady Lennox bestowed . : long, covert glance upon his fiancee. Sho ? had brought her head into almost immediate ! juxW?'OsitionT^?k that cf Varian's image, and for W?? B the freshness rand tb-? tfj?j-i^nnl^^^^^^^^^^0^ t;pon her features seemed to obliterate the lines and colors on the canvas. But tho next moment, as Lennox looked, the roseate circle of Mari? an's face blazed into remorseless distinct? ness, and her careless blue eye looked with cynicel familiarity into his own. Ho bade an abrupt good morning to his companions, and went toward tho door. But beside it he stopped. Suspended on the wall was Baxter's picture, "My Last Duchess." Ho stood amazed, "fas this the face and figure that, a month ago, had reminded him of hi3 >iistre?s? "Where was the likeness now? It was as utterly absent as if it had never existed. The picture, moreover, was a very fuf erior work to tho new portrait. Ile looked back at Baxter, half tempted to demand an explanation, or at least to expr?ss his per? plexity But Baxter and his sweetheart had stomped down to examine a minute skotch near tho floor, with their heads in delicious contiguity. How the week elapsed, it were hard to say. Thero v/ero moments when Lennox folt as if death were preferable to the heartless union which now stared him in the face, and as if the only possible course was to transfer his property to Marian and to put an end to bis existence. There wero others, again, when he was fairly reconciled to his fate. Ho had but to gather his old dreams and fancies into a faggot and break them across his knee, and the thing were done. Could ho not collect in their stead a comely cluster of moderato and rational expectations, and bind them about with a wedding favor? His love was dead, his youth was dead; that was all. There was no need of making a tragedy of it His love's vitality had been but small, and since it was to be but short lived it was better that it should expiro before marriage - than after. As for marriage, that should stand, for that was not of necessity a matter of love. Ho lacked tho brutal consistency necessary for taking away Marian's futures If ho bad mistaken her and overrated her, tho fault was his own, and it was a hard thing that sho should pay tho penalty. Whatever were her failings, they were pro? foundly involuntary, and it was plain that with regard to himself her intentions were good. She would be no companion, but she would be at least a faithful wife. With tho help cf this grim logic Lennox reached the ove of his wedding day. His manner towa?d Miss Everett during the pre? ceding week had been inveterately tender and kind. He felt that in losing his love she had lost a heavy treasure, and ho offered her instead the most unfailing devotion Marian had questioned him about his lassitude and bis preoccupied air, and he had replied that he was not very well. On tho Wednesday afternoon he mounted his horse and took a long ride.' Ho carno homo toward sunset, and was met ia tho hall by his old house? keeper. "Miss Everett's portrait, sir," sho said, "has just been sent home in the most beau? tiful frame. You gave no directions, and I took the liberty of having it carried into tho library. I thought." and tho old woman smiled deferentially, "you'd Kke best to havo it in your own room." Lennox went into the library. The picture was standing on the floor, back to back with a high armchair, and catching, through the window, the last horizontal rays of the sun. Ho stood before it a moment^gazing at it with a haggard face. "Come!"said he, atlast, "Marian maybe what God has madoher; but-this detestable creature I can neither love nor respect!" Ho looked about lum with an angry de? spair, and his eye foll on a long, keon poniard, given him by a friend who had bought it in tho east, and which lay as an ornament on tho mantelshelf. He seised it and thrust it, with barbarous glee, straight into the lovely face of the image. He dragged it downward, and made a long fissure in tho living canvas. Then, with half a dozen strokes, he wantonly hacked it across. The act afforded him an immense relief. I need hardly add that on the following day Lennox was married. He had locked the library door on coming out the evening be? fore, and lie had the key in his waistcoat pocket as ko stood at the altar. As he left town, therefore, immediately after tho cere? mony, it was not until Ins return, a fortnight later, that tho fate of the picture became known. It was not necessary to relate how he explained his exploit to Marian and how he disclosed it to Baxter. Ile at least put on a bravo faro. There is a rumor current of his having paid the panter an onormoussum of money. Tho amount is probably exagger? ated, but there can be no doubt that the sum was very large. How ho has fared-how he is destined to fare-in matrimony, it is rather too early to determine. Ho has been married scarcely three mouths. The Cold Waier~oTThird Party Ticket. The Prohibition National Convention which met at Indianapolis completed its work hy the nomination of Clinton B. Fish, of New Jersey, for presideut, and John A. Brooks, of Kansa9 city. Mo., for Vice President. The most exciting debate of the convention was on the woman suffrage question, the majority of the committee on resolutions favoring the ballot for women being adopted. Thc convention throughout was carac tcrized by the greatest enthusiasm. Sam Small was among those named for the nominee for vice president, but promptly declined. A campaign fund of over ?20,000 was raised in a short time. The candidates arc representative men. Fisk was a major-general in the Uuiou anny and was a strong Repub? lican, while Brooks, thc candidate for vice president, was in thc Confederate anny and is a strong Southern mau iu his sympathies, and was a Democrat. So one ot the candidates specially repre? sents the East or Northeast, and the other the Southwest. Thus they repre? sent the two great sections, and'with this ticket they have completely bridg? ed the bloody chasm They hereafter will know no North, no South, no Hast, and no West. (?en. Fisk also repre? sents the great Methodist Church, while Brooks represent}, the great Baptist de? nomination, through one of its branches -the Christian, or Disciple Church I ?uti? ni< ii arc strong intellectually and are fine speakers. The Power Behind tho Plow. Tito President in Iiis message to (.(ingress Haiti "the farmers of these \ ?nilctl Slat t's are seven tenths of the j population.Bet haps; six-seven ihn j of them, aie hewers of wood ami draw- j eis of water for the remain dor of the race. One seventh, willi inherited means, may keep ?to il ! heads above water lor a season, bu! | the em! will come, unless a chandu, I Seven lentils of tho population ! j What a power ! A sleeping gianj ! ? li aroused and united it could rulo (he ! world nm' dictate lei ins lo kin^s, ! ri nef* and monopolies The 01 der or ; association ?.! I artners ?hat succeeds j in tho accomplishment ol' this nbjeel, ! posterity will embalm their honored '. nantes as benefactors ol the human family. -J- -* * . -?u? i i - ll H. Jacobs- of Greenville coun'y. is in ihc penitentiary at la>t. where he will remain five years, utiles Iiis money and tu fl urti ec *>f friends get. him out. He is said to be won h ?20,000 to $o0,- ! OOO ina passionate ht he killed a tenant named Hughes, a poor man. It was a triumph ofSiistjce to convict him even of njaps'.angri J BfcHfc Our Stats Contemporaries: ~--r The Grand Jury's Work. BishopvilU Enterprise. The fearlessness with which the Grand Jury of Sumter .bandied every subject coming under their observation evinces one thin" that candidate? are few in that hody. The condition of the jail shows gross negligence on the part of the officials in charge of this depart? mont of the county affairs. Who will lay claim to it? We know we are ashamed to see such indecency and cruelty p?rmit?ed among a religious and civilized people. This Grand Jury de? serves the thanks of the whole of the County, and especially its worthy fore? man, Col. W. D. Scarborough. We want the same jury at least oue more year. The HayDsworth Murder Trial. ihnning Times. The main interest of the Sumter Court last week centered in the case of the State against Walter I. I?arby and Peyton G. .Bowman for the murder of Trial Justice Haynsworth last Decm ber. All parties being ready for trial, Wednesday was set for the day of trial. Wednesday it was found that the jury panel was not full, so the case was postponed till Thursday. Out of thirty six jurors, Thursday, only nine were selected. Another adjournment till Friday, that tweuty additional jurors might be added to the panel, was made, when the three remaining jurors were selected. The followiog then consti? tuted the jury : Harry Ryttenberg, foreman, A. K. Sanders, D. M. Rich? ardson, Geo F. Epperson, C. L. With? erspoon, Harry Addison, J. I. Brog don. J. M. N. Wilder, E F. Burrows, J. K. Bradford, Jas. EL Chaudler, J. A. Miller. Solicitor Gilland and Attorney-Gen? eral Earle appeared for the State, and Mr. W. C. Benet, of Abbeville, Mr. Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, and Gen. E. W. Moise, of Sumter, for the de? fense Exaniioing witnesses coutinued Friday and Saturday, till 7 o'clock Sat? urday night. Eight hours was then allowed for argument, four for the State and four for the defense. Each of the five distinguished lawyers spoke, and the argument of each is said to have been a masterly effort. Just before 12 o'clock Saturday night, Gen. Eane < i rected the attention of the Judge to the fact that the Sabbath was approaching, the day set apart by God for rest, and asked that the Court adjourn over Sun? day. The Judge left the matter with the jury, who decided to go on, and the arguments coutinued till Si o'clock Sunday morning. The Judge then charged the jury, who, after twenty five minutes' consideration, returned a verdict of not guilty. Court thea ad? journed to Wedtiesday morning, as the Judge's daughter was to have been married Monday night, and be desired to be present. The case against Keels and Pennington, charged with the same offense, the murder of Haynsworth, will probably be tried or nol" prossed this week. Io either case the result will be the same-acquittal. The Times last January foreshad? owed the exact result, when it said, "the trial will very probably be post? poned to the May term of Court, at which time the whole party will be ac? quitted" " There arc several other indictments against thc above parties, which will probably be disposed of this week. Clareiidon Enterprise. P. G. Bowman and Walter I. Harby were tried in Sumter last week for the murder of Trial Justice G. E. Hayns? worth last December, and were, of course, acquitted. The defendants were represented by Messrs. Moises k Lee, of Sumter, W. C. Benet, of Abbe? ville, and Robert Aldrich, Esq., of Barnwell, son of thc Judge on the Bench buring the trial. Solicitor Gil land and Attorney General Earle rep resented the State ably, faithfully and fearlessly, but their strenuous efforts amounted to naught against such an array of legal taleut and a jury perhaps before whom argument and evidence on the part of thc State was like pouring chaff to the winds. The Judge is said to have been feeble during the trial, but did not adjourn the Court Saturday night at all The jury went out just before daylight Sunday morning, and returned near sunrise with the verdict of not guilty. Just before 12 o'clock Attorney G?neral Earle informed the Judge that Sunday had nearly arrived, but he would not stop the Court for Sunday. He adjourned the Cou-t ?unday morning until yesterday, in order to go home to see one of his daughters married. It really seems that otic .-o feeble in health and feeble in bis regard for keeping ?he Sab? bath day should retire from the Bench ami give place to some one who is not so feeble and who will discharge thc dmies of such au important office with less fen ble noss Court re-convened in Sumter Wednos dav. The charge of murder ngaiii?>t John R. Keels was nol prossed and all (he other e ?ses postponed. The Ses? sions Court has adjourned. Florence Times. The H.i vt? worth murder case bas at last been disposed of, and after ail the delay, the cofis. the array of legal learn inc and tine speech making, the publie know just about as much now as they did before concerning the question ol" "on whom shall rest the responsi? bility <>f liaynsworth's death V" Af* was anticipar- d almost to a certainty, the jury brought, in a verdict of not guilty as lo tho men engaged in the riot, and justice will obtain no victim there, bu* ibis was expected, as it was hal illy possible to prove which one tired rho fatal shot, and ail were equally rc .sj'oa.Mtde tor (lie fatal rouit ut thc sk ?rm Uh. Tillman Will Not Down. Fitrwcr* Ff-cnd. in (lie Xews anti Courier of last Mon? day appears a long letter from Capt. B. ll Tillman in .-import of the assortit?) made by him in thc State Convention that "the expenditures of the State Government were ?2411.(100 more io 1STT than they were in 1879." Capt. Tillman ^reduces the plain figures from the reccrdrf to prove ?IS. aK?itie? stands squarely 12p to ?t, notw?hstaod ing the efforts of Col. Haskell W bally" him into silence and tbe ring organs t?* place him in a false light" beTore' th?' public. The News and Courier acof' Columbia Register, however, c?ot?Dtte their efforts to bamboozle the public bj insisting that Capt. Tillman d?eV flot' know what he is doing. Bat the fig? ures are there; let tbe public judgewjw' is ri^bt and who is wrong. Both ?o?. Haskell and Comptroller General Vei? ner look to a man up a tree about two sizes smaller than they made Capt. Till? man look in the State Conventiotf: Capt. Tillman is on tbe trail of fraud, and no one knows it better' than those who are tryiug to gag him. Cet bim keep up the chase. He is doing good, and t?ie effects of his work' will begin to. show itself within the next jeer. The people-those who support the govern? ment-are watching him and apprecta?e his work. Would that we bad a' whole regiment of Ben Tillman* \t Sotfth Carolina. Columbia Record. The Farmer's Friend, published it Timmonsville, in Darlington" cotrnty, says that *'Captain Tillman is nfl the trail of fraud, aud no one knows'it bet? ter' than those who are trying to gag him." Our Timmonsville contempo? rary owes it to truth and jostic? to let the people of South Carolina know jost where it thinks is the "fraud" that Captain Tillman's .*trair7 leards to. This is the first charge of fraud vet brought against any department of the State government under D?mocratie administration. The Farmers' Friend is bound, iu justice and in honor, to prove the charge or withdraw if. . Let's have the bo: tom facts. Nobody can "gag" the Farmers' Friend, ju*t as no? body has yet "gagged" its voluminous exemplar, Captain Tillman. Cjrolina Spartan. : An account of the Prohibition Con? vention which met in Columbia last week will be found iu this paper. It ia right and proper for a self constituted convention, mostly from Colombia, to meet at any ti rae and pass" any sort ef resol nt ion s they please ; that is to say there is no law against it. Next week the Republican party might call a simi? lar convention, and the women might also meet. But for forty men, a great portion of them from Columbia, to call themselves together and pretend to be a representative body for the whole State and then seriously to go to work and dictate a policy for the temperance peo? ple of the State would really seem a little presumptuous. Then when they rule out from th? great moral reform all women, negroes, white Republicans and young men under twenty-one years old, their action savors of a degree of absurdity that is well plea>iog to these who oppose temperance, if the whisky men of Columbia had been requested to draw up a platform for that prohibition convention they could not have possibly constructed one that would have better promoted the whisky interest. It ia well known that political parties have no use for temperance except as a means of catching votes. Why thia self-appointed convention >?houl? have thrown itself into the arms of a political party is" inconceivable. What they ex? pect to accomplish is beyond the com? prehension of temperance people, poli? ticians or whiskjt^neo of this country. We have failed to find a single advo? cate of temperance who endorses the action of that convention and speaking for them, we enter a protest agaiust tho whole affair. Greenvale Xevs. Grover Cleveland is a strong mao and a good one, but he is uot George Wasbiugtou, as we hoped be was. George Washington would not have accepted a nom tua: ion for a second term after having put himself ?? record against it. But then we can not look for a Washington more than once in two hundred vears. Some Specimen Immigrants. Jl'Ttiicell People. Several years ag ) Eiglish sparrows were imported to New York to rid Cen? tral Park and other public grounds of the caterpillars aud other objectionable vermin with which their trees and shrubbery were iufestcd. Little tr nothing was known of their habits and morals but they were met with unani? mous welcome and rejoicing as deliver? ers from great His and the freedom of the American metropolis was tendered them. And they, the birds, the English sparrows, took thc freedom aud the city Loo. They set up house-keeping 011 their owu account and lo tho surprise of rheir importers turned up their dainty bills at such fare as caterpillars and bugs and things, and turned thc same bills upon the peaceful song birds that had made music for sad hearts of old agc and merry hearts of children free from schools and nurseries. They would allow co cotcnants to abide there, and the strangers prevailed, and the thrush and rob n have flown to the highways and hedges and there waslo their melody on the country wiods. But the English sparrows arc at home and laugh at the meu who are sick because of their presence and delight in the ordinances that prevent thc shot gun and sling shot. Aud tho citerpillars and bugs and things remain, and the Endlich sparrow obdurately re? fuses to go to the country and work for a living. This Parable is wrtttcu for ihe reproof, correction and instruction of the immigration Volunteers and of ail others who are not content to drive slow and bear the ills they have rather than fly to others that they know ?iotof. --- The Orangcburg Times and Demo? crat has a shari way of disposing of tho many ?tuestions suggested by the pro? position that, tho State of South Carolina should accept Mr. Clemson's bequest 00 the tenus stated ia his will. That paper says : .We are no alarmist, but wc believe that unless thc legislature accepts the Clemson Inquest and establishes au agricultural college lhat there will be a serions split in the Democratic party ia less than four years. The politicians had better heed the warning* 3>esatt*e when the ,stor<ii co?