Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-10-09

fatal letter the good old miller was found dead in hi
bed.
"What meeting that was between mother and child
in vain she had appealed for permission to me in vail
her prayers were refused. But what had she done
home ? And who was the dying man had shrunk from
at the inn, where first beheld the Lady Beatrice?
"The disclosure was not made till afterwards, for sh
feared to he parted from again and little else did We
do than embrace and cling to each other.
"'Take me with you, mother cried leaye me no
here to de-lhey will kill me-they reved you,and they
are unkind to Are you not my own beloved lnolhe
and who shall part us mure 2
"Wildly wept that dearest mo.her-wdly she ex
claimed
"'And why should resist her prayers She is my
child, and will tell her all. Gnd will Judge nut as mar
udge,h; and He knuws disgrace fall my nno-
cent Bertha They will kill her. She pines for the want
Of her parent nest. will not resist her prayers!'
81 escaped my hated prison-from my gilded cage
in cultage by the iIl m"re, my mulhers
arms, caressng little Simon and Heaven seemed opening
my heart, Ii probable iha, the strong arm If the law
might have reclaimed me, and placed sgain be.
meath the of my fathers relatives but was asked
for-Lady Beatrice weary and dSgusled with me-
and considered that she had already done than her u
ty; that was recanable and, for the future, dead
them ali.
1.-The affairs Of the mill were managed by active man
whose integrity could he depended on; and when Simon
old enough he undertook the business f himself Isaac
Evandae had left will which there was none To dispute
hequea,hng all his wealth, Internationally, TO my mother
aud her son.
That dear parent was spared 10 lis five and twenty
years. her smile, but know she felt perfect
peace and when her sad story made known 10 me
aud Simon also, when he became Of age 10 receive it,
think if possible her chidens symIathizing love was re-
dou bled and though all three continued live
cuded life. yet never found any outward testimonies u
respect withheld from her. The dying man. whose hands
had shrunk Irom at the inn. my father. Ship
wrecked taken prisoner. reported dad and kept in slave
~, e had reached his native land die; and far worse
than DEATH 10 learn that his wife anolhers-tat she
had unwngly disgraced him and his innocent daughter
81 knew it Twas principally f,r my sake that my poor
mother had consented become the wife of old Isaac Ev-
andale the miller knew how fondly she treasured her
first husbands memurythe lover Of her yOuth-the being
whose loss she had never ceased 10 deplore.
"N0uld they had told me the dying man on that inn
bed my father Child as then was, could have un-
derstood ALL turned away from the cammy embrace
She felt this even more bitterly than /.
"a shadow rested over us in this world, but we were all
in all each other and learned resignation and con-
tentmen My determination never to quit my >euved pa
rents side again preserved Inc, probably from those temp
ratons which the ghtheared exposed; light heads
often turning to aching hearts,"
Dame Bertha finished her knitting and her narrative
with no idea that she had related mertoous action in the
consecraton Of her spring and prime the altar Of ia
love and duty but it touching, beautiful conempla
tion-and surely the kindly term appropr
aey bestowed than in designating her the GOOD Dame
Bertha !"