The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-09

| We live in cold and censorous world
i am fully aware of that truth, SIR answered
Mordaunt, with slight dash of bitterness in hi:
tone; but the entrance of Constance, now the
.Norning Star of his destiny, dispersed the nger.
ing clouds of haughtiness from his brow, and he
remembered nothing but that her faith and trust
| had been the same,
Through joy and through sorrow, through glory
| and shame
Wiley had the audacty TO call at his Office te
offer his congratulations. He extended his hand
with The assurance of welcome guest. Nor,
daunt folded his arms ana drew back with stately
reserve.
.Yon enter my doors and sit down in my Of
fce,' said he, with glance that brought the hoi
blood to Wiey's usually cold cheek, for they are
rot part of myself; but my hand is my o,rn, and
never shall be voluntarily given to a man whose
heart l know to be destitute of every warm and
generous feeling That bear no yindictve re
membrance of the past, let this action speak,"
| Taking from his pocket book soiled and worn
locking paper, he put it in the hand of Wiley.
This paper he added, relates to yourself. The
Stephen Wiley there referred to as leader of a
notorious band Of counterfeiters must be your own
father. There are collateral proofs which can
gather up. if you will it, and place in strong array
before your eyes. This paper was found upon
the person of Leftrdge, the murderer. himself one
of that lawless band Doctor Lewis is the only
man beside myself acquainted with this dsHgreea-
BILE fact. He will never publish it to the world
and should look upon myself with loathing and
scorn if could initiate the malice from whose evils
l have just been liberated and seek to cover you
with fathers shame. Now your secret is safe
Tear the paper into thousand pieces, if you will
and let the winds ofheaven disperse the relics
Wiley crushed the paper if with iron fingers
His lips turned of ashy paleness, while the veins
of his forehead sweed and stood out like purple
cords. Hetried to speak and falsify the evidence
of truth, but the words adhered 70 his palsied
tongue. The astounding revelation brought about
by such strange coincidence of circumstances
seemed so much like the retributive justice o.
| Heaven, be was struck dumb with terror, and his
coward eye quailed before the flushing gaze o
| Mordaunt.
i again repeat said the latter, that your Sc
cret is safe. You kno,C 1t is. You know me tt
be incapable of a mean revenge. And will add
that if you profit by this bitter lesson. if you eve
awaken to tho beauty of truth and the value o
friendship, if you should offer your hand with al
honest heart in it, then mine shall close upon i
with equal readiness and cordiality.'
You are generous exclaimed Wiley. in
hoarse, unnatural voice, but cannot talk now
Farewell, Mordaunt. You will never see MI
again, unless can accept your offered conditions
shall leave the city Immediately. My characte
is in your hands. Do what you will with it, shal
never complain
They parted, and years passed before they me
again. When they did meet, Wiley extended hi
hand. and Mordauns did not reject it. Magma
nimity had triumphed over malice. Wiley neve
became warm-hearted or amiable man, for h,
wanted the genial elements to constitute such
character, but he did endeavor to be just and hon
est one, and he had the candor to acknowledge tha
it was owing to the influence of Mordauut H
had been cold skeptic in the belief of the exs
tence of moral excellence; but there was livin
reality, simple majesty and truth in Mordaunt'
virtues, to which his spirit bowed in late but sin
cere acknowledgement.
And once again Mordaunt sat with Constanc
in the .Fairys Grotto.' The fountain threw
its silyery spray into the moonlight, falling with tn
same lulng music in the marble reservoir. Th
beautiful daughter of Danaas still held her empt
vase beneath :he waters, the lovely Bacchant
caught the same resplenden, crown upon her leaf
brow. and the graceful Flora twined her fadeles
garlands in the shade.
Constance, fair and pure as the marble grace
reposiDg in the moonlight, and ten thousand time
as lovely. sat beside her husband, her eyes raise
to the night arch bending radiantly above them.
DO you that solitary star?' said Mqrdauni
taking her hand in his, and raising it in his towar
one whose rays were almost lost in the full gor
of the moon The first night ever met you fix
ed my gaze upon that planet, and thoughts ho
and inspiring rushed into my soul. The dread G
poverty, the fear of shame melted away in it's di
vine efTulgence. l saw you in the cottage
From that moment you became the Evening Sta
of my destiny, shining with steadily increasin
brightness unto the perfect day.