Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-11

generous anu itipuisiYe hergo own intherl was iii
his youth.
Mr.. Richard as.lnores quiet and cautious.
and Mr., Frank foreveriin disgrace said the old
lady warmly; Nhut for all that, he had q smile
that would do your heart good, and a way with
him that would charm-a bird from a tree,1
"Mrs. Bryce, do look like my father:"
asked Sarah suddenly.
The good woman turned and looked at her,
quietly with her clear, gray eyes. 8
INA, naM she said, shaking her. head and
tiayoring her speech with a strong "Reminiscences
of her native dialect, 'ye have u blink of your
ee like him, but your face is likeyour mothers.
my hairi,. ,,
did you know mys mother2g asked Sarah,
eagerly. lFr
Mrs. Bryce's face grew serious. Ut
Yes, knew her. She was grand lady"
English, was she not?. go.
"On the mothers side she was, but by the
father she came of as good Scotch blood MS ever
crossed the border"
Mrs. Bryce" said Sarah, thoughtfully "dc
You think my mother ever loved my father -
Mrs Percival told me she did not: but then she
never saw her You knew her well; now tell
me what you think about IL y -. Z -
The face of the Scotchman then flushed Wv
idly M & 4 So q g leei
Mrs Perciyali What could she tell you ~
she exclaimed, angrily. AMI yet, what could
she not! BARN, there is more evil in this
world than you have ever dreamed of Little z
ttat woman would have dreamed of sending
You to me, if she had known what know
Tell me- $50 81
Promise me first that iyou will not speak of
then"
YES, promise" said Sarah, impatiently;
and l. am never going to her again, SO it can
make little difference. W. So .iels5{ ,a - ~
We'll, my BARN, that woman loved your fa-
ther once. He never knew it-ro one knew it
but n confidential servant of hers, who was
priyy to the plot But Mr.. Frank never cared
for her. And when he WENT to Europe she
hurried Mr.. Richard, out of pure ycSation.-
When the news came of Mr.. Franks marriage,
she was IN a dreadful way. Your mother, my
BARN, was OF high family, and wealthy one
they We're all angry when she married your6fa-
ther; but when she left him all was forgiyen.---
The matter was hushed up, and after his death
she married again. ~ eS5'i4 e +
She did not love him then sr said Sarah, sad
~ She had been accustomed to invest this I'M
seen mother with every possible perfection. And
to be told that she was cold, and false and
heartless, wasa bitter sting
"Lovei" said the Scotchwoman, with a bitter
emphasis. y BARN, it was more than love
It was ldniatrsy, and sinful 4 suppose. He was
ten ten years younger than she, but no one would
have dreamed 1T TO have seen them together.
saw them three or four times in Paris. and once
in London. Il was before you were born, YOU
know q fafs'
"Yes; but if she loved him so, how Gould she
leave him If she loved him, how could She
give me up? was but a little child-so little
as only to have faint memory of her-when
she went away. s1sR 80 -, s8f
My BARN. there are some wrongs that will
make proud woman turn against the innocent
child she has borne, said the old woman, SOL
EMMY. 4 wondered greatly at it myself but
cannot now dr. Richard wife, or rather
Janet, her confidential servant, played her part
we'll 'Shelwas tall, lady like girl, well furn-
lshed with money and fine clothes. She began
by senuing anonymous letters to Mrs. Frank,
who would not show them. to her husband Ii
she had done that, all might have been we'll
But she only brooded over them; and when
janet came to see her, with a little babe in her
arms, and told her it was his BARN, it was
enough. All the love she had felt for him
seemed changed to hate. She left You both.
with a bitter vow that she would never see you
again; And so she kept il, and Mrs. Richards
plan has succeeded ~: sta sat
Sarah listened in silence To this strange story.
= But how did You know all this Mrs lsrycey
she asked, after moments pause. S
was on the continent with lady, and saw
your father and mother; and more than al! that
knew Janet She died in my arms yearago,
and told me all" 20 n
You were friend of hers thcngn
The features of the Scctciwoman worked con-
ynlsiyely, and she answered, with burst of
honest grief 49,
"Sheiwas my ain BARN ain. dear bairhli
and woe be to then, that led 9the puir lassie
astray!" 'a...ssss5s1ei
The young girl was shocked at the ss eject Of
her careless question. aif
"Don't weep so, Mrs. Bryce, She said,
soothingly;H am very sorry to have panied
you so, a1s
s'There-I am better now, said the woman.
wlplng her eyes and smiling steadily. 'sItis
better for her that she has gone. There is no
one in that other country to lead her into wrong
-puir ia,nmiei But will ne5er forget or for.
give thoseayho did this wrong y she added with
q yeheHence that sparkled in her usually placid
eyes, like fire. 80,
/" must find my mother, a.lnurmured Sarah,
laying her, head down on the pillow, from which
she had lifted it in the heat of the conversation
she Will love me when she knows all, and /
need some one to care for ME. Mrs. Bryce, tell
me her maiden name (, 49,
e T" Margaret Claumoran, my BARN.
Margaret Margaret-itis a beautiful name.
wish they had called me So i ~ $50 =
am sure your own name isbonny enough,
said Mrs Bryce, kindly. Now shut, yourey
my BARN, and go to sleep. ken well shall
love you for the sake of yuir mither who was
so kind TO puir Janet in spite of the way in
which she came to her. ttl
With a kind good night, that might almost
have been a mothers, so low and gentle was it, j
Mrs, Bryce left the young girl to her rest. II
'aBut aii5night long she was tossedlto and fro 4
upon q sea of dreams. Sometimes the fair sad
face of her mother swept before her, and then
the gallant figure of the young saiIor;s and
when at last the morning broke, and the first
rays OF the rising sun came stealing over the
house tops, and looked down into her little roon
she awoke weary and unrefreshed and conscious
of dull feeling of homesicknessa and cireariliess
that was almost worse than actual pain ti
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