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VOL. XXXVI. WHOLE NO. 1835.
j5 clccl tb. X) at frit.
T'
TIIU .MOTIIUK' IMMVI'.H.
av arts. HULKS pirn.
; p
"meek- aee'nU ""'
Though the. ,e,kin,lMbr!gh.
tbecheek- i 7,V
An angel rhe teemed,, the lowly knU thtret
O,0,,,r",'r,,er'
, . , j
It ikcd fcr theluveJ one net r choi or power,
-or beaut,, that we a. the glow from the
it I
flower
But virtue and enlus iifu deathlt.ni as fair
i
Kor these she w.i breathing a mother's piiro pray
It 1. rt-na her child 1. .y on the ti,l. I
of a life ever ehnnjjin with
pamion nd pride
TbooftU temptiition my luro him, It wblipsrs bt-
wnrof
And the hit thing to fade It a mother's dear
prayer. -
U aifiy not b (.lighted It ennnnt he vain V
It will clinf; to its aiemory through plc.iure and
pain . .
Though hi. sky fro w Doth darkly, what
'v j
Irum di'jpnirP
Tli the thought of hi. borne, and bis mother'.
lastprajer.
It ha. breath.d a deep spell o'er the .onl la It.
oinrn ,
A cbRrm from all evil,ly urinary worn,
A gcui nbute clear ray. rn-ver pule 'neath the
gluro
Of the t'ul.s light, allurin; from her, nnd froai
prvr.
,
It may seem but tiifle.yet do hot withhold,
Young nmther, thathoon fr inure preciuit. tbsn
gold
Your child moy Uek limol of fttrhlnn to wonf,'
H it strengthen hi. toitl with a mother', fond
prayer.
l! wis breathed to a Ood who ean fool for our
woes
A futher to all whom n him shall repine,
And lt I. th .pirit whleh mudly would dars
To iroff st the truth of a mother's Cr.t prayer.
A ROMANCE OF LIMA.
Many yean ago a youn Engluliuan, a
medical student named Astley, wont to
Lima. The love of adrenture was btrong
upon bitu. and all he mt with in his oivn
country wai too taiuo to satisfy it. l'roud
of the profession for which he was study
ing, and trusting toil for aubaisteneo,
strong and healthy in body and i" mind,
he left Cnjtlund with a hold heart, and
Ibis vras
ii.
he life h l?d, aud what camo of
At tini when the diflicully of prepar
ing subjects for anatomical study was very
greal, aud when to procure them honest
ly was impossible, as the prejudice ng'un'd
dissection was .0 strong that tio one 'A'tis
willing to submit the brtdy of any one
connected wrilh him to examination, it is
well known that thero woro men who
niado it their business to obtain at no
nuall risk, bodies, generally those of the
newly buried, which lltcy sold' to surgeuns,
filed ieul stuueuts, or indeed to any one
it ho stood in need of the hwtly corumod-
ity.
This ola, kno-n ao " bid) enalchcrs "
and " resurrection, nieu " has died out,
tiuco there is happily now little prejudice
against what ha been triumphantly prov
ed to be a uccescury branch of scientific
fcludy ; but at tbo time of our story their
hideous work wn a thriving and pre.Ha
LIj one.
li.icb.ard Asiley, in common with the
vest of the profession, nvai'od bimsolf of
theii1 ecrvicei, and many time in the
black night his door was openod to those
who did not knock, but who were txpoet
ed ncd waited for, aod who, entering ii-ici-.il,
Stealthily dopcsUed a, dread Imrdcn
upon th; tabic prepared for its recpliou.
tld and yunC, teu, wouion and ukil
.trnn. all in tjrn J upon that grim table,
. . .1-. ; .ir'-.ifui lii'iirumcnts cut
una Asitt-j ......
thoir way totems inai wer-j
benefit the'. vtng. ;
Though h j was not hird-heartd, it was
not unnatural that in liuie ho should grow
aa much accustomed to tha sight or hts
"sublets" ! rtrl nothing but a mo-
',(!Cr..!!
rit- :j ha nut aii'.ie me ciunc-
u of infRncy.'of uncovered
r-
the
ingci.'uui """"Jv"' " . ...I
face
o; ; nan siruoic uown iu iu-
h.a vears,
- ..... . , " i
sfr.dthv vlit W
snai.l A till AfcllfV lOtlt
UnerW night. De .re , ns.hs wore ao garm . -
hishmolo exaoiino tho new subjoct.-j,;wp B;iiu.
v:tv,'r .'r i, man nor tender chili thisi lla jcft ht
JJ ! ' W ,
time, but a young and beauiirul woman, j
. . J:., !
- . .. ,MMA,M .1... ii .ii..
. . .... .... i;
eye.
ch.
b
13
und color iu iue i -
couldmak.it lovelier. The fair
tad ft.llcu
bsok, and gave no shade
" 'n'r '.row. and ma long iair
r , thick fringe upou the violet
. t -h T-'ids. ' L
t ry tall a.id slender, and hor
i. - which huog down as she
, u. ible were bog and per
1. As Astley l.fted the hand
. .. A.I.I..1.
her breast, he thought how
:) .1 Jjsju
bcaulifulil
nov, there was n
ouco have been, since
v me iain'esl rose-tint
seen . bare to Ua ank,e j.omell.infi thought I.c, she stood no,1
I. Al,w 'oubled .Uover;parontly waiting for him lo speak, her '
io idea- of treating lb i. name bln.ll bo Mary." - '
j beautiful eorpsa as he had done all others "Arc you better. Mary, and will you
i brought to Uiai, was repulsive to him. and .it iu this chair " !
'8t!n'eS0' But how coutd be rid himself
of the lovelv nmh. rt 1
?, -y cubuir It was possible
I till r I h A r- nna.,l.A.l.ll .. .t..
.... . 'M.
possible
ii . 1111 , 1
tuat the Won who had Lrouu it t n. ,.ht 1
be bribed l ii, :n 1 ? "
ih.. . m r , ? gum,and if
they should refuse-but he was incapable
Of distinct thought unon thn enl. .. nr.. 1 I
c0ill onv " . , .7 J ' !
. . ' u uiij
beautiful thwj beforo him should bo treat
ed willj reverenco and respect: He gont
ly coveted it from head to Toot with n long
white cloth, and locking the door of cofa-
Jruuuication between his bedroom and the
1 room in which it lay, threw himself upon
his bed witfcout undressing, for the night
was nearly gone.
Uut hu sleep was Lroken.and his dreams
were foverish, and fn some way all conneo
ted with what lay in the next room. Now
it seemed to him that it glitled in through
the locked door, with hands folded on its
breast, and eyes still fast closed, and
stood by his bedside : and now tho dream
was that he had opened a vain iu one of
Iho delicate arms, and that warm, living
blood poured fast from it ; and finally, he
woke with s cry of horror from a ghastly
dream that he found (hat he had entered
the room and found that some unknown
hand had autkipated him iu the work of
dissection.
The horror was upon him after he woke
to know it was a dream, and opening the
door ho looked in upon tho table. No
change there of any kind. Tho long
sheeted figure lay iu the half light rf
dawn as he had seen it io tho lampdight,
very straighfand still.
" w, not until nearl noon that Ast
iey raised the covering to looit once agiuu
upon the beauliful dead face, and when
he did ao he saw with wondur, not unmix
ed with terror, that a change hud come
upon U. Ho could not tell wU at it might
bd ; tho deathly pail )r was there still, bul
in toiue way tin faea was not tho same.
Ho looked into it long and curiously.
Surely a chaiigo had passed over theoyc,
for though they were still fast shut, they
looked now as though closed in sleep ra
ther than in doath. lie liflod an eye-lid
tenderly with his' finger; there was not
doath iu Iho eye; unconsciousness, (raaje,
there might be, but not doath.
He wa3 certain now that she was not
dead, though ho could fiud uo life in her
nulsoa. For hours ho strove to call back
the spirit, until at length color returned,
tnd warmth, and life, and she lay beforo
him Bleeping tranquilly like a child. He
had placed htr on hi bed, and n;w sat by
her sido with a throbbing heart to fttiail
her awakening.
jhe slept ao long, and in tho waning
light looked so palo that he feared sh
wns agtin about to fall into th.i strange
deathly trance from which he had with
so much ddfieully recovered her
In his
terror of that he cried
out for her to I
aivakc, and the sound of his cry
her with a start.
awoke
Ho had prepared a speech lhat was to
calm and re-assuro her when sho awoke, I
i. in....! i , i;ri i.nr-nir tr;incfli-'awiftlv
clothed and lodged ; but sho. no more
needed calming and reassuring than an
St too T0U2 to know its mother from
llliant iuu i
8y, ' L,a that was tdmost 1
Sho looked rounu
ifnniine and her eye resting upon Ast, ,
' . .... : .vi h.d .ml asked him !
uLimPc for food. It was evi-1
dont that she had no lecol'cclion of ill-'
no, and neither anxiety or curiosily as
to her present position.
She ate the food which was nrougut io
. . i,.P:.n,WrK,,! l.amrd auickest.Lesl.
n.rsu,.,... -
from the bed apparently u..-.-
. u..i . .Krnn.i hAfi
a AaIIiiV D.rwllnUcli UvL tv tv
nntvj l"" t
He left her sleeping, nod went to - snoiu -
tr roomi profoundly puzzled
Here wa.
. . . .' . I n I
al -
.i.:. ....... ..... vAm.n imniiui. nuv
r. i;n it... flr iho did not.
.
r , - i .!
remember anything which woutdleadto,
the discovery o. ner r.eua was p
sible tnai nor sense nag iii iw aisugevu-1 iv -
er never to return i tho lovely creature loved him so intertfely, there being no one
might be a harmless idiot all the rest of' in the world whom she knew or loved I be
tter days Her speaking English was an-' side that he could not fail to be very hap
other puis!. She might be an English-'p, and the mystery of the bond between
womao her beauty was certainly of the' them enhanced its charm.
h mtebt only have 1 hey were tusrned, and still ihe lived
n.u --- - , -..
learned the English language ;
rus ii s",
PRINCIPLES,
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 50, 186 k
j how cauio lhat knowledge to have been
retainnd lin
Shopaidno attention to the inquiry'
but took the offered scat, and becaa ei-1
1 .1 .. . ' ue,a m
gently rocking herself to and fro. It had
1 . 1
i -
'11 .. . ..
, - Jectlv rockinr? hpMoir in . i fm t i.-.i
' ..iiuu
i.,ii.. r, ,
I , b r. . ' ee uer mere oy
the lamp-light, robed in the long white'
U - armrv. with h i.nTi r,. ... I
it u 1 ... 'I
. wuu u" iu"B" ae!"'"y. rocuing herself
m .nt;m;o, vuat Asucy leu a . sensation sunus of the streets had terrified her so
very like fear thrill through him. Ilo 'much that ho never repeated the cxperi
must do something, for he could not bear' Bent.
this, lie took Una book, tha first Hil! A I I im a. 1nn,.in i 1 .-:r.
camo tq unnu it was an English one
anuouereu it to lier, abking
would like to read.
bhe took it w ith a childlike smile, and
laying it upon her knees, began to flutter
jit. loaves backward and forwaid, playing
iuiy wun tnem. .
"Good heavons!" said Astley to him- ' Six years had passed sineo Iho eventful
self, "she is mad, imbecile at any rate ; 1 .night when Mary had been brought as
must do something with her. dead to Astley'. door, when walking one
Ihtt it wa. impossible to think with her; day he met an old friend whom be bad
I before him, and taking her by the liHnd,
ne ,"1U ' yiinu- The recognition was mutual, and
" Now, Mary, you must go back to bod, NAstley insisted upon his friend returning
and to morrow " . with hitq to diuuer. The invitation was
She did not wait for the end of the sen- cordially given and willingly accepted,
tenco, but rose at once to do a. slio was and thinking to surprise -Mr. Holt by his
bidden, threw down Iho book, and letting' wifo. loveliness, he said noihingof his
fall the coverlet that had enveloped her. being mrried, picturing to himself what
walked quietly back to the inner room, his astonishment would be when ho saw
Astley fastened the door, and felt as if her.
he were mad from sheer bewilderment. Though he had anticipated some eri
stic must have clothes tho very first thing,- dence of surpriaeho was quite ur.prepar
and how were they to he procured without' ed for the excess of emotion di splayed by
taking some one into hi. confidence? ? Mr, Holt upon his introduction to Mri.
Evou if ho knew where to go For theni, he' Astley. The color left his face for a mo
knew nothing of what a woman's clothes ' ment, and then returning violontly, dyed
boulbe. It wa. evident, then, that some' it crimson, and tho words of acknowledge-
venture, and it was equally evidenUhaMigihiyT'ec
it must be a woraau in whom he confided, u strong effort, he olleied Ins arm to lend
as ho required practical help of a kind no
uinn t'uuiu ive liiui.
Tho morning
dawned before he
could
arracgo any settled plan, and finally do
citied lhat he could not if he would rid who did not 6eem at all disturbed by bis
himself of the charge of hr, therefore she intense gaze, aud took no notice of her
should remain in h(s house, aniPhewculd guest beyond what hospitality demanded
tell all to the woman who acted as his , Aslley'a supicions were excited long be
housekecper, who chanced to bo absent tit fore I he meal was ended, and his heart
the lime, but whose return he was expect- took a jealous lap as he thought it post
ing that very day, lie would bind her to Lie that his'friend was falling in love with
secrecy by the most sojemn oalh ho could his beautiful wife. Ho cursod the inipubo
devise, and if she failed to keep it, why ( that induced him lo biing Ilolt homo with
at any rate ho was in tt torriblo scrape, h'tn, and busily invented excuses for lid
aud t his seemed the best tiling to be done. -J-pg himself of his guest as soon as possi
The woman relumed early in tho day, and ble.
Astley at once told all, and implored htr j Holt's agitation increased to positive ill
assistanpo. To his great relief she at ncss before long, imd rising, he ankod Ast
onco agreed lo do all that lay in her poiv.- (.y (0 accompany hini lo another room,
er for tho unh.ippy girl, and a few nr- He was scarcely able to walk, and Astley
rangenients beiug made, Asiley left the (00k him by the arm and asked if he were
hoUB for the day, delerniined to .hake ill.
ofl the unleosanl impression tho whole i "Ill j" ho groaned. "I wish I was
thiug had mati." pon him. dead!"
Returning at nig.'it ho found Mary com-' He sat down and covered bis f.ico with
fortahly clothed, and ipoking lets pnlesnd bin hnmls.
ill. His housekeeper tout mm mat
had been drossed like n chJd, having np-
parcntly noid.ta of asbisling hcuc.'f at all.
It would bo impossibio to uescri. v
... . ... . i -
nulely now intelligence ua neu, ui.u Brk
in the poor cirl'a oncd. It wai ,
not a gradual growth from infancy, but
came in fitful snatches. The greatest
change came first, when lr face bright-
M...I, ......n,u ,,f
eueu irom u 'n:i;v, umi.i
expression at Astley's approach, and ll.cn
she began to wait upon him like a lovipg
child, lie devoled himself lo her very
tendorly, almost as a mother devotes her.
self to a child, aud with.infinito palienco
laucht her loread and write. Mio learn-
od also to sow, and wa. not unskillful in
such woman's crafl ; but what he taught
and Marv had devcl-
, ' - . ...
, - know,ed (1 ire.
oreu so raruuiv uiai ire was niwu n
. -
nients, but she had no memory of any
irci liur I m nio A. lie Inld her
, -
me wuuio iuij, nun mou uc. . ..j
' recall somethicg of the lime bctore, out
, 1 .1 . I l n ...ft asv linrtt-ttr tlfll
Ana iu p ui .m .
thev cared little for the past. She was
to.y j J"
, - - his - ftnd
i ... . V.f-,.. Yr hiil-
n tue same pricy emu , ..
not' MEN.
' band and hi, love sufficed for every thing
tho refutation of being skillful and bis
practice wa. a huge or.e - his spare hours
were devoted to hi. howe, which w, his
heaven
. '
"j wet mum v.iva nia.n. ..r 11..
j ,. - ...... w jvm.o jrt9scilt JCOI1 Ul wie
most perfect happiness. Mary differed in
holhine r.nw fmm r.llini. unm..r. ........ r....
1, a ' ' " ' " v -"iwwi, ou.o iui
1 1....1. . .
ii.ai uiamt uAibience 01 more than t.vuritv
i, .. 111 lrttl,y
j.ars, iler memory of that litno uaver
returned. She lived entirely within doors
.n- . '
- .. . . 0 .
ivalK, nna the unaccustomed lights
finil
iu IULIUUULL- IIIB 11 U
; to his old friends and relatives in Kngland
her if tho'r.s very strong, uut tLo dillicuUies of ex -
rlanation. or of deceit, which it would in-
volve, combined with her extreme aver -
lion loathe project, always prevailed, aud
'the idea was dismissed a the thine was
impossible.
'piot seen since his departure from Etig-
Mrs. Astley to dinner, but the declined it,
laying her hand upon her husband's. I)u
'ring the whole time or dinner Mr. Holt
scarcely moved his eyes from Mary's, faro,
j i on H ininK mo a iooi. A.iiey, wa me
likeness of your wile to-diine lias over-
come me.
i ......
"Are you .
said Asiley.
. u,u ..u.
I was married eight years ago. f mar-
r.eJ an J-.nghsh girl with your wife hair
and eya s ; i.e ue,gu , too, unu
sweet voic. I brought her over, hero di-
.fi.. n, .Tiiirriiii'i. nnd we lived tho
v,,iij no. u... 0
' happiest life in the world for two years-
and then she died.
j Astley was silent! He could think of
no words of consolation that would not
( bo a mockery to a man who had lost such
a wife as Mary
"Hied," Holt continued, sifter a paue,
"whllo I was away from her. I had gone
i a three day's journey, leaving ber in per-
feet health, and I returned
to find that
.1 . ... . , ....
immediately af-
ur m'i ui 'n
lor my dep(irturo, ftnd was already bur-
...
ied.1
"How long ago ?" asked Astley, hoorse
ly. A horrible light was breaking in
upon him.
'Six years, I left Lima thff following
day. I never even visited her grave, but
returned lo England at once ; and now,
after these yean I find your wire so like
her in ever feature and every look, that my
old wound is lorn open afrosh, and the
iuloler'ablo aniuish has made me cry out
in this war.
Astley started up and laid his hand up
on his friend's shoulder with a grap liko
avico. Uis voice was iiarsn ana ury, ana
... . . . ,
his eyes wr bloodrhot and staring.
TERMS
NEW
"Holt, for Ggd's suke lot U3 do nothing
rashly I Couie With no to your wif's
grave, and let us be sui?.''
Holt looked up and muv all in Astley'a
fuse.
".Speak," he shouted ; she w mr wife !
Tell we how vou met her ; 'speak
sit? ' t "! ""r '" '
lliesqund of a cataract m my ears that
deafens me !" j
And he foil iu a swoon at Adtlcy's feet.
He might have died in it for all Ast. i
ley could do to revive liim. Ho stood I
blindly staring at tbo pule face, but ho'
1 . ... '
was tncnpa.le ol so much as holding out ;
a baud to him. !
Holt came to himself before lonn
rising up hnrd ad wild, repealed his
aeniaud that Aaley should tell him where1
he met his wifs.
And he did toll him, sparing not'u, say-!
iog plainly out that she had been brought
to him by the hody-snatcher as a subje,t ;
that she had lain as dead upon his table
! lor nloh, beetodaud shrouded liko a
i corI'Re'
"And rou
dared-
burst in
; n '10 was almost beside himself.
nlly ;
"I saved her life," said Astley, gt
he had softened w hn thnncl.l. r,f tli,.l
restoration. "Will von m. .i.h n, t
'
tne grave, that we may bo sure V
"No, no, no," Holt moaned; tho
was passing away, and giving phtou
dull sorrow. "I can bear no more,
as certain, moie certain than death,
furv
to a
that
your wife is mine. God help us."
Which of the men was most to bo pit
ied i
There woro some 'moments of horrible
silence, in which eanh hoard the beating
of his heart like, a heavy drum- Holt
spoke again.
Ask Kdilh to eom l.r. R..W
.... ... .... u "w
cannot nave lorgoiten mo."
"Mary I call her Mary. It will only
distress her. 1 give you my word of hon -
. . 6 . ... , P
or she has no memory of anything beforo
tho trance." 1
Cut when ho saw the passion in Holt's
face ho judged it best for his sake that
she 6hould come. Since he choso' to hear
from her own month what he had refused
io." ' r" '"" f-!'l' ho should do
She ca.no quickly at tho sound of the
loved voice, and glided into iho room,
, looUinS like nla of pence between
two evil spirits. She stopped short as she
caught sight of Astley's face alt drawn
and set with the eflort lo suppress bis
rmnlinn. and then threw bet arms around
his neck with a cry of love and terror.
Put ho unwound hor arms, and for tho
first time drew back from her embrace.
"Mary, my love," Holt's eyes hashed
fire at the tender' words and tones, "tell
me, tell Mr. Holt, if you remember any-
I linn in mi ( 1 i fa l.aOtra VAM aivnllA fttrim 1
your trance in this house?"
"I do not," sho taid, "I remember
nothing I have said so inr.ny limes." '
"Sweu it," cried Ilolt.
' I swear it," she said, ''by my husband,
Kichard Astley."
!.,. II.. ll 1 It.. i,r..i ),imu,.H' nt lur
, . -, , i
feel, clasping ber knee, and crying pas-
innately : .
"Oil, Edith ! have you forgotten nir,
your husband, David lloll? C. my
' , .
darling, you must remember me, and
how happy we were for lhat short two
venrs '" i
but she broke from his grasp, and
dhrcw hcrjclf into Astley's arms, crying
out : i
"Send hiui away 1 What does ho
mean ? Send him away !'' .She was pal i
and trembling with Terror.
'Let her go," shouted Holt, "or by".
Tho oath was interrupted by Astley.
"Ilolt, God knows I will try to do what
is right, and for her sake I ask you to U
calm." Ho placed her in a chair, when;
he sat weer.ini! for fiinht. and went ou.
-Vou shall say all you can to bring the
- "
I r,asl ,0 hcr ,ucmory, nd if she can re
member you in tho faintest degree, I will,
g ive up ni claim to jours, but il sho netted with it, came to rnfnd more H:
does uot oh, Hal:, J saved her life !", linctlv lhan it had ever done before. Ui
Tho strugglo was an awTul one, and shook" -'P rn -nev.ri.b. and haunt
him like tho wind shakes a reed.
'Vou loll hor," said Holt, bitteily ;
perhaps she will believe what you say,
Al any rate, sho will listen to it."
It was hard lo tirgin the cruel task ; nt hfi ou((,p (r)0.( wll ,,'.,, c03,ej ,uddent
yet for hcr sake he uudertook II, bis ly. He ro.o determined to asertain tbu
voice, trembling, though he tried wilLall '- : h-unbrred and orened t he door
his will to steady it. hg JegJ Uo,y f Mttry.
"Mary, love, lisleT.- You know Ihst
you must have lived more than twenty: " .
years before joti was bought here that, -vaTlie Portrarid .-Jryi notes it as sur:
night." piijing, ' IIowpii-tly ar.i quickly all th,.
"I do not know," she said ; "I csiinol Kebel raider on Northern cities ha.vedi-:
remember." appeared since election. Even the Cm-
"Hut it must hnrebeen 10, fir you wr Qdisn propeller Georgian, vrbich was (?
a woman ihcn." 1 ing to pounee on BulTalo and other lok.'
I cannot t'nderstadd," she repeated, ciiies, turns oat to be only aharmless pr,
1 have norecolloction ofsoylhing before '" jailer. Oen. Hooker hss horded htj
Astlev turne J to lion wun a toon pi
i J . i . ... . . I
ony. "you see now ii is , mi m o.u
...
1 hii torture."
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I "".ive me my wife"' (aid Ilolt, fiercely.
i "You will not take her," Astley cried,
as the thought of bis doing so against
her will suut k him lor tbu first time.
1 "Jl)0 ia niine," said Holt. "Go ou, toll
her the whole slorv If lm ,,.
derstaml it, she will believe it when you
tel1 i,l'10 her'" Tle 'eer with which tha
""'" 'A' -a
scarcely knew what ho said or did.
And Astley told her ail iu few words.
Shclooked bewildered.
must t.o tru if you any o, bub 1
v"'11"' ; tt"'1 dh' A,,lel'' 1 lovo
' , ..
Mio tnnst come with mc " 'bIiou'p.1
licit, savagely. The demou huA KOl the
better of hiiu. and the dcop h i ,.i,.i,
with jonlouj pain, j;oke bitturaud unju.u
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tionT ' ' 10
The tgene muni be eudod for bar s.v.c.
ancl Aaiey buiouht HolLlo leave tiiera
i V'1 . iy "e'u ,la ' wUuu I! t!ly t-'ould not
. ? TX,: conned
, to ultwl with Hie fruniie 111 :m i.n,i
j ,u -"'7 had hunted in his arms, ha
laid her dowu, and led Holt from th.-.
room, that thosight of her might io loo.
1J0Ui I er madden him. His ra"u dinJ r,t
I from simple exhaustion, and throwing
j himself into a chuir he v. pt liko a child.
I Asuey rouseit mm. "Jlolt Lo a man.
This is nn awful trneeilv. T t.
um " .n".,u.' ""S"' Iwiahto
iieaven i nau di
ted ra'dier than ulnved ni v
part in it. t here ure not upon the earth.
10 Dicn so In olu n -hearted as vnu nn.l r
J'ot Ui aci'el,t wtat is inevitable, but let
us spare what anguish we cau to lhat un-
l.il.iu u.nmi.ii 1. .
"'ii j ........... mo noiv, ana to-
motrow 1 nl see you again. Perhaps b7
that time I shall have laoughl of sume-
tning lor net . "
-Holt rose passively. "V0-j a-.a nobler
than 1'" he said as he turned to gi.
It seemed to Astley thnt'-his grief was
but beginning when ho tried to explain
llm wholo thing clearly to Mary. Tho
torlure of putting it into words was so iu-
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tpnRn that nil l.i.l.rn ,voa r.Ai l.;n . .
en n dii ii. rt lit i it inn n r im
r
gtu b.ie coiu-
. pretenucJ, and asltcd h.m if ho wishod
hor 10 ieaT0 lliin. even thm agony seemed
i !',8.?0nl.ra"t!'idr!lh tT1 ',0Ldured
; In telling her that he believed Bho out;ht
1 3 do so. -"fa"
Loving as sho was, she c.-uld not com
prehend the laerilire to duly which Ast
py was striving to nsako.and her tiiorou.-h
ignorance of the world wndere-J it imposs
ibio to make her understand what ber
position would be if sho remained where
uo nan. Ar.'l vet tins wni
a caso so
that had ever been in the' wml rRetifi't
lhat no law, human or divine, could ap
ply to it. But above all tho thought rose
dominant, lhat by whatever mystery
of unconsciousness deprived of memory,
slio wa,s still ilolt s wilo ami not Ins, and
with this'-thought piercing him liko a
' 'harp sword, he said that bo believed elio
! ought lo leave him.
fjhe roao up, cold and proud in a mom
ent, and would havo left him then, but a',
tho threshold hor spirit failed, and she
turnod again to throw herself at his feet,
with tears and sobs.
Night has veiled many sights of woe,
tho clouds of night have many times been
pierced by cries of anguish, biljer crios for
faith and patience, going up above thfr
stars to the feet of God, but night neyer
shrouded deeper woo than this, bitterer
cries never pierced the shuddering dark
ties. c.
When tuornin;; dawned thev were boll,
i very calm and sl;l!. Their tears were shed.
' ., IV,..;. n.-no ,rrn .1... tl J..M..I r .
'mo rigiit, iiiougiiriis ncari was oroKer.
jn the c01l(lj(,t . a.)d se wom!)n.,ike( ,,,,
, accepted tho right, not because it was ,
but became ho said it was so.
"I Khnll di" she said in a voice fron,
which nil passion had .departed. "I can
,)oal. lm Mwe alvl j. but bea(
eton Hnf ,iit,
. Win nn describo that parting? When
1 u'i.. ..... Jr ii... I
the sun sot. 't was upon Astloy broken-
hearted an 1 alone,
his wile.
liolt hail taker, away
.Seven days p.med, and Astley uever
It ft his desuUlo home. He made no dis
tinction of day or night, but lay down to
sleep if llie sniper which Irom time l
tiuio rendered him unconscious could b
so called at uny hour that sleep came U
him. '
At th. oluie of the fovetilli day ho triad
c,-ii,o i;r.i iim.iu r..,,, v,
tllo r.lMi ,.lUam uot ,jend." he cuid
"therefore it is cleat lhat this grief wiK
not kid me." That nij-at he undressed
i ..... i . ,
r.rni went io uea.
The niht si. yeaw-ajjo, when the
t1ian!..l Ili.i.i. I..., iinnn ll... I 1 . 1 V. a
j j ,,inlustic dreams of terror con-
ing certain that ho had heard a knocking
at the dorr, and twice be slept sgaii
w hen he found that all was silent. Uu;
he awoke a third tioio iu iW dawn and
l.o..r 1 H.o ....... I .,in a f. Bl.U knorkin
fcca louua nomjej to eiciie tan
. n.i i l r ...
tmpicion. au iue aiaraj.jus vowrv iu.
eleotlon Date Ihui tousa in lacis ,. ;.