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I MARITAL ROMANCE I
I Cyrus Townsend Brady
I ILLUSTRATIONS IVY
RAY WALTERS
(Copyright, IMM, l»y W. o. Ctiipiuaii.)
CHAPTER I.
In Which It Is Shown That Marriage
Does Not End All!
The romance of life —in novels!
is usually pre-marital. No matter in
what wild fury of passion and tem
pest, outward and inward, the young
people may have been plunged, their
author seems to think that he has
quieted the raging seas of adventure
with the oil of his pen —or of his
typewriter!—when he has led them
to the altar. In the minds of the
creators of the children of fancy prac
tically nothing ever happens after the
forging of the hymeneal bond. In
the world it is usually different.
The circumstances preceding the
marriage of Ellen Slocum and Bernard
Carrington the protagonists of this
veracious chronicle of disturbance,
■were sufficiently unusual in them
selves to have given rise to a num
ber of interesting and highly exciting
episodes, upon which with great reluc
tance I refrain from dilating, for Ellen
Slocum belonged to an old and very
respectable family domiciled in Phila
delphia since the days of William
Penn, while Bernard Carrington was
an English baron of ancient and hon
orable lineage whose seat was a dilapi
dated castle in Dorset.
Ellen was an orphan, her mother
having died in giving birth to her.
Her father, deceased shortly before
her marriage, had beer, a prosperous
merchant and shipowner. Bernard's
father, also eliminated from the story,
had been a gambler and a spendthrift
who had broken his wife's heart and
dissipated his own fortune. Conse
quently, Ellen was blessed with a
superfluity of this world's goods which
more than matched Lord Carrington's
lack of the same. Ellen was a staunch
patriot, a rebel and a revolutionist
therefore. Lord Carrington was a
promising lieutenant in the English
navy. In some qualities happily he
resembled hia mother rather than his
father.
Without entering into the details of
their previous acquaintance, suffice it
to say that they had met while Lord
Carrington was a prisoner of war at
Philadelphia, and married. The Amer
ican Revolution was over at the be
ginning of this romance and the scene
is set at Carrington castle in England.
Ellen's money, or a considerable por
tion of it, had been cheerfully used
by her to rehabilitate the ancient seat
of the family of which she was now
become the chatelaine.
She had the disabilities of her qual
ities, too. She had never touched a
card; she had never ridden a horse,
she did not even know the steps of
the minuet or any otiier dance, and un
til her marriage she cared little about
that prime feminine pursuit called
"following the fashion." The two had
been so busy in their first comrade
ship, there had been so much voy
aging between England and America,
necessitated by their plans, that there
had been no time for these things as
yet.
The two lovers had lived for each
other and much alone during the per
iod preceding the opening of this
story, but with his castle now com
pletely repaired and his fortunes thor
oughly rehabilitated, Lord Carrington
must needs exploit his good luck by
showing liis beautiful wife with whom
he was very much in love and of
whom lie was inordinately proud, and
eke his castle, to some particular and
Intimate friends of both sexes— men
and women of fashion of earlier and
less innocent days. The introduction
of several varieties of Adam and a
number of distinct species of Eve in
this hitherto serpentiess Eden caused
the trouble to begin. The marriage
had stood the test of isolation, the
greatest test that could be imposed.
Was it to break down before the lesse:-
trial of association? We shall see.
It was an excited and angry Ellen
who confronted her lord and master
in her boudoir late one autumn night
—or to be quite accurate, early anoth
er autumn morning. And my lord of
Carrington was b> no means cool him
self, although he was more remarkable
for natural imperturbability of manner
than his hasty and beautiful wife.
As she spoke with him, however,
she let down her hair and carefully
removed those extraneous arrange
ments which had enabled her to raise
It toweriike above her brows, doffed
her silks, unclasped her stays and as
atimed a more convenient negligee,
in which she was not less charming,
as preparation for the imminent fray.
It was to be the culmination the
minor culmination that is, the greater
would come later—of a series of an
noying incidents since the opening of
the castle to the hnusn party. My
lord and my lady both had grievances
which each was eager to present for
the calm and dispassionate judgment
of the other.
First in Lady Ellen's mind was
Lady Cecily Carrington, a cousin sev
eral times removed of my lord's. The
relationship was not near enough to
render my lord immune nor was it re
mote enough to warrant indifference.
Indeed, Carrington had had a rather
difficult part to play. Ellen had dis
covered that an ancient love affair
had subsisted between her husband
and Cecily and she imagined not
without cause that. Cecily, a repre
sentative product of the vicious soci
ety of her time, was endeavoring to
fan the embers into a flame. Nor
could she detect in Lord Carrington's
method of handling the situation any
very pronounced desire to quench the
fire, and his conduct toward his fair
and, if reputation did not too greatly
belie her, frail cousin, was not distin
guished by self-restraint. In Ellen's
eyes Carrington manifested a very
catholic taste in the eternal feminine,
for he gave much unnecessary atten
tion to Hon. Mrs. Monbrant, a wid
ow putatively at least, for no
one knew where Hon. Mr. Mon
brant was. His wife save out
that he was dead, but that testimony
was not of great value. At any
rate if he lived, he was wise in his
generation and he kept under cover.
In the house party there was an
other eternal—in more senses than
one! —feminine in the person of the
ancient and imperious duchess of Dul
ward. Her great age precluded the
possibility of jealousy of Carrington
in Ellen's mind, but the chatelaine of
the castle did not like the ponderous
and vicious dowager any more than
the younger pair who were making
the running apparently for the affec
tions of her husband.
There was only one woman in the
castle whom Ellen really did like, and
that was Mistress Debbie Slocum of
Massachusetts. In making up the
house party Ellen by a freak of cir
cumstances had desired to include
some one from her own land. As for
tune would have it, a shi|> opportune
ly arrived in Portsmouth bearing Mis
tress Deborah Winthrop Slocum as a
passenger, consigned to her kinswom
an and friend, the chatelaine of Car
rington. Deborah was the exact an
tithesis of Ellen, a quiet, staid, prim
little Puritan, with ail the character
istics of the Massachusetts branch of
the family, utterly out of place In
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My Lord Was by No Means Cool Him
self.
the society of Lady Cecily and la Mon
brant, but not without a certain very
definite charm of her own. Her type
did not appeal to Carrington, however,
and therefore Ellen loved her.
Having surveyed the woman through
Ellen's eyes, we may take a look at
the men through those of her hus
band. First in rank there was the
duke of Dulward, a hard drinker, a
high player and a rich liver; Admiral
Benjamin Kephard, a jolly old sailor,
and General, Honorable George Athel
strong, an Anglo-Indian soldier on the
retired list. The qualities that distin
guished the duke of Dulward were
common to Athelstrong, in a less de
gree perhaps owing to their differ
ent stations. The party was com
pleted by the presence of Sir Charles
Seton and earl of Strathgate. Seton,
who was Carrington's most intimate
friend, had enjoyed a weakness fot»
Ellen since he first saw her, but the
friendship between Carrington and
himself had been so true that noth
ing had been allowed to disturb it —
as yet! Now Seton had succumbed
to the charms of Mistress Debbie, and
as Mistress Debbie ciung to the lee—
if this were not a nautical romance,
I would say, sheltered herself beneath
the wing—of Lady Ellen, Seton was
consequently always about the pair,
and with masculine blindness Carring
ton jumped at the wild conclusion
that there could be no attraction for
his friend except what lay in Ellen's
charming personality.
So much by way of introduction.
CHAPTER 11.
Needles and Pins.
"Sir," began Ellen imperiously,
white settling herself comfortably in
a chair before the open fire, "you have
been pleased to find fault with me
about many tilings which I have borne
with what patience I might."
"If you remember," said Carrington,
"I advised you to stay at home and
you insisted upon going."
"What! And have them say that I
was afraid to ride to hounds!"
"No doubt," returned Carrington
sarcastically, "and perhaps it' you put
on boxiug gloves with them, or tried
them out with the broad sword, they
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would be equally at a
but oue doesn't look for those things
| in women to-day."
J "There was a time," interrupted El
1 l p n swiftly, her lips trembling, and
indeed despite these things she was
quite woman enough then, but Car
rington was so blinded with passic.ll
as to be unable to se it.
"I have had enough of remin!»
cence," lie began curtly.
"Was it in reminiscence," cried
Ellen shrilly, "that you had your arm
around Lady Cecily in the arbor Ulis
afternoon ?"
"Did you spy upon me, madam?"
"Spy! exclaimed the woman.
"Lord Strathgate and I—"
"Damn him!" burst out Carrington.
"What was he doing with you in the
arbor?"
"He is my friend," returned Ellen,
"he and Sir Charles."
"I tell you 1 never felt less like
laughing in my life to see you made
a fool of and those popinjays rushing
to your assistance."
"I have been made a fool of," said
Ellen steadily. "I am just beginning
to realize it.l was well enough when
you were alone with me and you
were well enough then, but when
others came—"
"By heavens, madam, are you con
trasting me with that dandy and rogue,
Strathgate?"
"He has never spoken to me other
than in terms of the utmost respect
and consideration in my life," an
swered Ellen bravely, "and I—"
"He had better not," burst out my
lord grimly.
"And I would to God that I could
say the same of my husband!" she
continued disdaining his threat.
"If you treated me with any defer
ence and paid more heed to my wishes
these difficulties would not arise,"
said Carrington. "If you would be
guided by me—"
"And what, pray, would you have
me do?"
"Dance, game, act as the rest do,
and —"
Lady Ellen arose as she spoke and
kicked vigorously at her stays, which
had fallen from the chair upon which
she had laid them. It was a great
act of injustice to her husband, since
nothing would have kept her from
being in all things as like to her sisters
as she could.
"But you will not overcome me
physically without a struggle which
will arouse the castle," Ellen ran on
hotly. "I am not made of the weak
stuff of your fine friends, Lady Cecily
and Mrs. Monbrant, even if I did not
ride the horse. Now, will you go?"
"As you will, madam," returned
Carrington helplessly, "but let me
warn you, I'll have no flirting and love
making between you and Strathgate
and Seton," he went on with increased
rigor. "By heaven, I'll call them both
out, host or no host. They shall play
at swords if they interfere with me."
It was not a pretty conversation. It
was not a pretty age and men and wom
en spoke frankly to each other. I as
sure the reader that 1 have disguised
and moderated it by self-restraint.
CHAPTER 111.
Ellen Plays a Game.
The greater climax came the night
after. Lady Ellen had declined to rido
that day. She had business at home
as the chatelaine. Consequently, no
mishap had occurred during the day
light. Lord Strathgate had pleaded in
disposition and had remained at the
castle also, indifferent apparently to
the black looks of his host as he rode
away by the side of Lady Cecily. Mis
tress Debbie, who made not the faint
est pretense of being interested in
hounds, and who indeed cherished a
growing sympathy for the fox, had
also refused to ride in chase of Master
Reynard. Sir Charles Seton had made
•■in ineffectual effort to do likewise,
only to be carried off by his host al
most by violence and allotted to Mrs.
Monbrant for the day's sport.
Evening found the party assembled
in the drawingroom Everybody was in
a bad humor
The only serene one apparently was
Lady Ellen. When the men joined the
women in the drawingroom after the
late supper, it was she herself who
proposed cards.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MUSICIANS OF TENDER YEARS.
Many "Youthful Prodigies" in the
World of Melody.
Like so many of the world's great
composers, Sir Edward Elgar was a
"youthful prodigy" of exceptional gifts,
as was proved by a recent perform
ance of a suite composed by him at
the immature age of 12. But even Sir
Edward was probably not as preco
cious as one of his English predeces
sors, Samuel Wesley, who in bis eighth
year heard a regimental band play a
march which he had composed for it.
At 11 Franz Schubert had already
placed several songs, string quartettes
and piano pieces to his credit. Han
del's first attempts at composition
were made at eight, and Yieuxtemps,
who began to scrape the strings of a
tiny fiddle at two, is said to have been
even more precocious, sir Charles
Ilalle was only four years old when he
played in public a sonata expressly
composed for him; Liszt was a public
performer at nine, Chopin and Ruben
stein at eight, Lady Halle and Joachim
at seven, and at five Mozart composed
a piece of music almost too difficult
for bis father to play.
Beasts All Left-Handed.
Livingston, the great explorer of
Africa, who had more chances than
most men have to learn the habits of
wild beasts, says in his books that
they are all le/t-handed, so to speak,
or left-pawed, If you like that way of
putting it better. The lion, he says,
always strikes with its left paw.
EXTENSION FOR FRUIT LADDER.
It Will Prove Handy in Use on High
Branched Trees.
To extend a ladder for picking fruit
or trimming trees use a piece of 2x4
pine of any desired length. At one
end nail a piece three inches wide, as
long as the width of the ladder, and as
thick as the diameter of the rungs.
Across the middle of this cleat nail a
;iiece of Ix 3 about five inches long.
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Details of the Extension.
This forms a hook to catch over the
third rung as seen at A. B is the same
as A except it has a button which
will turn over the first rung. The cleats
stiffen the pole sideways with the lad
der. This can be removed in an in
stant by turning the button, and laid
aside for another year.
TOMATOES FOR CANNING.
Suggestions for the Extensive Raising
of the Vegetable.
I planted one ounce of tomato seed
In our garden the middle of last
March in open ground and I think
every seed came up. The young
plants were looking well, but were
killed down by a frost the first of
April. By the last of the month they
had all come out again and were large
enough to set out, and I planted the
3,000 plants which grew from the
ounce of seed, writes a correspondent
of Farm and Home. The weather be
ing favorable, almost every plant
lived.
The land on which they were plant
ed was very poor and sandy, with a
clay subsoil. I first broke it deep in
March with a one-horse turn plow,
turning under a lot of weeds and
grass. About two weeks before set
ting out the plants I laid out rows
with an eight-inch shovel and putin
commercial fertilizer analyzing two
per cent, nitrogen, ten per cent, phos
phoric acid and three per cent, potash,
at the rate of 600 pounds per acre. I
covered this fertilizer by running over
the rows once with two five-inch
scooters on a double stock, which
ridged the soil level with the surface.
The rows were three feet apart and
the plants were set two feet in the
row.
The cultivation was begun as soon
as the plants were firmly settled in
the soil and they were given three
plowlngs and two hoeings. The last
plowing was given about the time the
tomatoes begun to form freely on the
plants. I made a mistake by not
giving them four plowlngs instead of
three and by not applying nitrate of
soda at the rate of 200 pounds per
acre at the last plowing. By failing to
do this the plants stopped growing,
most of the leaves dropped off and
over half the tomatoes were scalded
by the hot sun, rendering them unfit
for canning. We got over 400 two
pound cans of tomatoes from this
patch of about oue-l'ourth acre.
Legumes in the Garden.
We hear a great deal about growing
legumes in the fields, so that the sod
can be plowed under aod the land
enriched with nitrogen. In the gar
den the growing of legumes for this
purpose is as profitable as elsewhere.
The peas or beans may be rotated
with other crops as to location and
so made to do service in turn on all
parts of the garden. If beans were
grown on one plot last year, grow
some plant not a legume on that plot
this year. These legumes make good
roots and have a heavy foliage, says
Farmers' Review. They shade the
ground and help the soil organisms
to develop in that way, and
one of the soil organisms that
are particularly adapted to the
roots of legumes are enabled to col
lect very large quantities of nitrogen
from the air. A large part of this ni
trogen is in the leaves, roots and
stems, which rot and are then washed
back into the soil.
Remarkable Strawberry Record.
One of the most remarkable straw
berry records comes from the patch
of Oliver lilack, Pittsburg, Pa., whose
plants averaged a little more than one
quart of berries each. lie writes:
"last season we sold 3,600 quarts o!
oerries from the 3,000 thoroughbred
plants. The highest price received was
15 cents a quart; the lowest eight
cents; the average was ten cent*
TUey were all fine berries."
KEEP ORCHARD FREE OF TRASH.
The Only Safe Way to Keep Trees
from Injury by Rodents and Insects.
In regard to the protection of fruit
trees from rodents, my experience
has been that most people neglect to
do anything for the protection of their
trees until it is too late and then get
discouraged and do not try to raise
their own fruit, being more interested
in the production of a good hog or
calf than in the comforts of their fam
ily (until the agent comes along again
and sells them some more trees.)
Well, I have known of one instance
where a certain neighbor sowed his
orchard to wheat. Just before the
wheat was ready to cut the rabbits
barked almost every tree. This was
in June, mind you. They must have
had queer constitutions to have need
ed the«bark at that time of the year.
These trees, I think, had been set out
two or three years.
My experience is that the rabbits
prefer the very small trees, al
though they will sometimes gnaw
quite large ones. But there is no
limit to the size of a tree that a mouse
will try his teeth on. While examin
ing trees for borers I have found
trees from 25 to 30 years old that had
been gnawed by mice. I would con
sider the surest remedy against them
to be to keep your orchard so clean
of trash, grass, weeds, etc., as to leave
no hiding place for them.
I should say that most rodents pre
fer the apple, pear and quince to
most other kinds of trees; but I find
that rabbits will invite their friends to
a picnic whenever they happen to find
rose bushes unprotected. I use chicken
wire netting to protect my trees in
the nursery. Three feet high is suf
ficient provided you stake it down
well. One of my friends, a nursery
man, is also a school teacher, and no!
being at home very much when the
time came for protecting his nursery
by putting up his fence, he entrusted
the job to his hired man. He put up
the fence; he put it high enough, but
failed by about six inches of getting il
low enough. The consequences were
that one bunny fixed a hundred or sc
of his trees before he found him.
I prefer veneer wrappers to any
hting else for protection, because they
nan be left on the trees two or three
years without the least injury being
clone to the trees. They are a great
protection against borers also. I once
sxamined a 30-acre orchard that they
had been on for two years and only
found one tree with borers in it in the
entire orchard. \Y r e have tried the
veneer. Of course, we do not recom
mend any paint that has grease or oil
In it. I know of parties living near me
here that bought trees of agents of
certain nurseries and then the agent
would sell them enough paint to kill
them, and there you are.
Finally, dear friends, concludes the
writer in Farmers' Review, if you
have neglected to protect your or
chard otherwise and Brer Rabbit is
cutting up capers try this: One part
sulphate of strychnine, one-third part
borax, one part sugar syrup, ten parts
water, mix and paint small twigs with
this and scatter in their paths, and
that will be the last of Brer Babbit.
A GRAPE TRELLIS.
Serviceable One Which Can Be Built
for the Garden.
A grape trellis made of white pine,
put together as shown in the sketch,
will last for several years. The 2x4-
inch posts. A, are seven feet long. The
feet, B, are made of 2x4-inch, four
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Strong Grape Trellis.
feet long, and rest on a brick placed
under each end. The crosspieces and
braces are Ix 2 inches. A piece of
strap iron, C, fastened to the foot by
means of a nail through a hole in its
top, explains Popular Mechanics, is
driven into the ground, which holds
the trellis from blowing over.
GARDEN NOTES.
Worms if left to feed at will on
currant bushes will soon ruin them.
A garden properly taken care of is
a source of considerable profit and
much pleasure.
Do not permit deep hoeing in the
garden, as this destroys the lateral
roots of plants.
Push the growth of the new straw
berry plants so they may develop
large root systems for next season.
Cut back the monthly rose bushes
as soon as the first blossoms wither.
This will insure a second growth at
once. The blooms always come on the
new growth.
Cultivate the Onions.
The most important essential In
onion growing is thorough cultivation
at the right time, which means that
we must keep down the weeds and
grass and keep the soil loose around
the plants while they are young. This
requires careful work for the first few
times, but if well done one will feel
well repaid when the harvest comes.
The patch should be gone over as soon
as the ground is dry enough after each
rain. For cultivation by hand as de
scribed above I plant in drills from
U to 16 inches apart
AN HONEST DOCTOR
ADVISKD PE-RU-NA.
MR. SYLVESTER E. SMITH, Room
218, Granite Block, St. Louis, Mo,
writes: "Pcruna is the best friend •
eick man can have.
"A few months ago I came here in a
wretched condition. Exposure and
dampness had ruined my oneo robust
health. I had catarrhal affections of
the bronchial tubes, and for a time there
was a doubt as to my recovery.
"My good honest old doctor advised
mo to take Peruna, which I did and in
a 6hort time my health began to im
prove very rapidly, the bronchial
trouble gradually disappeared, and in
three months my health was fully re
stored.
"Accept a grateful man's thanks for
his restoration to perfect health."
Pe-ru-na for His Patients.
A. W. Perrin, M. D. S., 980 Halsey
St., Brooklyn, N. Y., says:
"I am using your Peruna myself, and
am recommending it to my pationts in
all cases of catarrh, and find it to b«
more than you represent. Peruna can
be had now of all druggists in this sec
tion. At the time 1 began using it, it
was unknown."
The Duchess' Philosophy.
The old duchess of Cleveland in
vited a relative to her husband's fu
neral and told him to bring his gua,
adding: "We are old, we must die;
but the pheasants must be shot."
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