Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-14

of his life.
Oh Anna Fay with your nut brown
hair and Quaker eyes, land dove-like ways,
who would have believed that you, SO
good and so demure, with Jacob the best
man of Green Grove, would have given
such hostage as that round, red, laugh.
ing, loving little being; that flower pluck
ed in forbidden forest; that unauthor-
lied, unsanctioned, unlawful little liege-
Estella, star of YOUR morning. God
forgive you both. You sinned, and you
suffered you fell and you repented; per-
haps your burning tears and your pray
ers of penitence and grief may have eta
ced the dark record in the Great Book
above. You are bothcold inyour tombs
now--Heayen's mercy rest on you, and
Heavens angels restore youl There are
enough in this hard world tocast stones
at you both; for us, we will but water
the flowers on your grave, and pluck up
the weeds, and place headstone where
you lie, with There is JOY among the an
gels of God over the sinner that repent
eth engraved thegeupon.
In this letter to his sister, Jacob made
a full confession; telling herthat, shock
ed and terrified at his crime, he had sent
away Anna Fay, who refused to marry
him as he wished, and how she had liv-
ed in Italy ever since-he, Jacob, feeling
that entire separation, though they low
ed each other well, was the only repara-
ton they could make to Heaven; and
how five years ago, she had died, leav-
ing their child without friend or pro-
tector in the world. How he had then
gone over with Betty Thorne, to whom
he had confded his secret, to guard and
educate his girl; which he had done car
fully. He then ended by appointing
Tabitha guardian and sole trustee of his
daughter, now seventeen years of age;
for to his child he left all his property,
excepting generous donation to Betty
Thorne. He further said that bequest
made so solemnly as this of his orphan
child on bis deathbed, would he was
sure, be regarded as sacred /; and that Es-
tela would be nurtured carefully for his
sake. All his usual subscriptions, and
certain yearly allowance of which we
shall have to speak presently, were to be
continued until Estella would be Of age,
when she would consult her fathers
memory and her own feelings only.
1t took but little time for Mrs. Hib-
bert to reflect on her course of action.
Paul and Jessie, impulsive as all young
people are, pleaded instant adoptign of
the child, and Of Betty Thorne, too but
Tabitha HILBERT, wounded in her fami-
ly pride, in her religious conscience, and
in her worldly ambitions, turned coldly
to her Children saying, "The girl who
has robbed you and your cousins of your
rightful inheritance, who is stain on an
unspotted name, and who damages our
religious character forever, shall never
darken my threshold. IrcfIse to act as
guardian or trustee. Entreaty is useless,
Jessy. | am Christian woman and a
mother, and understand my duties"
So Betty Thorne was written TO, and
"all ecognition Of that unhappy girl "
distinctly declined; coupled with Sc
we're warning which sounded very much
like threat, to "sell the Hall when she
came Of age, and never dare TO intrude
herself among the members of a family
which disowned heras disgrace" AZ
ter Mrs. Hilbert had written this letter,
she read, as was her daily wont, the les
son of the day. 1t CHANGED to be the
history of the Magdalene, her sins, and
her pardon. But made mo comment,
though Paul and Jessy looked at each
other-the girls pale eyes full of tears,
and the youths check crimson.
Months and years rolled by; and ia
cobs name was never mentioned, Meth
err was his sin, neither were his good
works. The beautiful old Hall was still
shut up, until Estella should be of age,
and the donations and subscriptions were
punctually RENTED; Betty Thorne writ
ting oil the letters in the name of Mas
ter's Hciress.
There was a certain yearly allowance
made by Jacob to a certain widow with
five children-a Mrs Malahide, relict of
Capt MaIahide, of the Fourth Engin-
GERS. She was an Eycrett-Miss Grace
Everctt-who had eloped one day with
scampish young officer, with nothing
but his pay, and who had consequently
been disiuherited by her father. She
was the youngest, and had been the dar-
ling; but she had lost herself now, they
said aud so, though not wholly dead to,
she was partially accommodated by,
the family, Jacob as head of the house
since his fathers death, had always Civ
en- Mrs. Malahide an allowance, with the
consent of Mrs. Hilbert and the arch
deacon; to whom it was a matter Of
pride rather than love that an Everett
should not starve. But for themselves
Grace bad married poor man and
an unconverted one, and what claim had
she, therefore, on them? So the arch
deacon drove his prancing bays, and Mrs.
Hilbert bought her Lyons relvets, and
they both said that Mrs. Malahide was
only too fortunate in having such de-
voted brother as Jacob, and that her sins
had merited her suferings. This was
the allowance which Jacob had desired
in his will should be continued until Es-
tella was of age, but which then shewas
free to discontinue or keep upas she liked.
Mrs. Hilbert had not remembered
this clause when she refused to accept
the trust confded To her. Perhaps If