New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-19

ever had been, who had any concession 70 look Tor IN
the inexorabe face at the cabinet. Woe TO the de-
fauter whose appeal lay 20 the tribunal where those
severe ewes presided. Great need had the rigd wo-
nan Of her mystical religion yelled in gloom and dark
ness With hghtuiDgs Of cursing, vengeance and de-
! Z, Notion 1aSli through the sable clouds Forgive
NJ our debts aS forgive our debtors was prayer
! too ,ooOr in spirit for her. Stne thou my debtors,
Lord wither them, crush them; do Thou az would do.
and Tb,u Shalt have my worhip this the iInpous
| tower Of stone she bull up to scaie Heaven
/ Have YOU finished, Arthur, or have you anything
more 10 say TO me? think there con be nothing else.
| You have been short. but full Of rnatterr'
"Motber / have yet something more TO say. It
has ieen upon my mind, night and day 'hs long time.
II is far more difficult to say than what have said
That concerned myself; this concerns US oil.
| " Is all Who are US all Y
"YOuref myself my dead father"
She took her hands from the de.k; folded tsein in
her lap; and sat looking towards the FIRE with tie i'm
penetiability Of an old Egyptian sculpture.
" You knew my father infinitely better than ever
/ knew him. and his with me yielded TO you.
! You much the stronger, mother and directed
/ him. As child, knew il a. well a. | know it now.
Of bis going TO China to take care Of the business
there, while you took Of here Though do not
even now know whether these were really terms Of
separation that you agreed upon and that II was
| your will that l should remain with YOU until was
| twenty and then 60 to him as did. You will not be
ofe AIDED by my recalling this, after twenty years
81 am awaiting to hear why you recall it,"
| He lowered his voice. and said, with manifest re-
| luctanee, and against his will:
"Iwant to ark you mother, whether itever occurred
| to you TO suspect
| At the word Suspect she turned her eyes moment
arily upon her SON. with dark frown. She then suf
fered them TO seek the fire before; but WITH the
fown fixed above them, if the sculptor of OLD Egypt
had indented it in the hard granite face, to rown
| for ages.
| "2that he had any secret remembrance which
caused him trouble Of mind-remOrse! Whether you
ever observed anything in his conduct suggesting that
or ever spoke TO him upon it, or ever heard him hint
II do not understand what kind of secret
brance YOU mean to infer that your father prey
| to-" she returned, after silence " You speak so
| mysteriUuey.
| ais il po:sble mother" her son leaned forward to
be the nearer to her while he whispered 1t, and LAID
his hand nervously upon her desk, Is 1t possible
| mother, that he had unhdplly wrOnged any one anu
Looking at him wrathfully, she bent herself back
in her chair to keep him further of, but gave him no
reply m ,o.,,r ..n.ihe mother tba, # ,bi. thought
has never at any time flashed upon you, it must seem
cruel and unnatural in me- even IN his confidence, 10
| breathe it. But / cannot shake IT OIL. iIne ana
change have tried both before breaking sience) DO
| nothing TO wear it out. Remember, was with my
father Remember, | saw his face when he gave the
watch into my keeping, and struggled to express that
he seut il as a token you would understand 70 you.
Remember saw him at the lat with the pencil III his
| falling hand irving to write some word for you to
| read but to which he could give no shape. Inc
more remote and cruel tins vague suspicion non
/
that could give it any sembance of probability to me.
| For heavens sake let us examine sacredly whether
there is any wrong entrusted to us to set nght' no
one can help towards it, mother, bp you
| Still so recoing in her chair that her overpolsed
weight moved il, from time to time, little on its
| wheels and gave her the appearance OF phantom
of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she lDterposed
her left arm bent of the elbow with the back OF her
hand towards her face between herself and him. ana
| looked at him in fixed silence.
| "In grasping at money and in driving hard bar
gains-I have begun and must speak of such things
\ now, mother-some one may have been gr1evously
| deceived injured, ruined. You were the moving
| mower Of ali this machinery before my birth your
Stronger spirit has been infused into all my father
SeaI;Tos for more than two score years. You can set
these doubts at rest think, if you will really help me
TO discover the truth. Will you, MOTHER
He stopped in the hope that she would speak. But
her gray hair was not immOvable in Its two folds
If ,eparation can be made to any one, if restitu-
ton can Be made to any one, let ~ know 1t and make
have seen little happiness come of money IT has
brought within my knowledge 80 little peace 10 ms
house or to any belonging to 1t that Is worth
less to than to another. 1t can buy me nsthlng
that will not be reproach and misery to me, II am
| haunted by suspicion that 1t darkened my father
last hours with remorse and that Is not honestly ana
Justly mine" ,,u
some two or three wards from the cabinet. BY swift
and sudden action Of her foot she drove her wheeled
chair rapidly back to it and pulled 1t vioientiyUs1
were striking at her. and abe wardng OIL the blow
girl came huryng in, frightened.
| L" Send Flntwinch here )?
In "a moment the girl had withdrawn, aud the Old
| man stood within the door. "What You're hammer
and tongs already you two! he said, c0ohy stfoking
his face. - thought you would be- was pretty
| sure of it, ,..
Flintwinch - said the mother, look at my son.
| Look at him" . ,...,
"Wel! | am looking at him. said Flintwinch
| She stretched out the arm with Which she had
shielded herself, and rs she went on Poih'eu ~ '"o
| object of her anger. =,
In the very hour of his return almost-beiore the
shoe upon bis foot is dry-he asperses his luther :
memory TO his mother Asks his mother to become,
with him. spy upon his fathers transactions through
a lifetime Has msgvings that the goods OF ths
world which we have painfully got together early and
bate with wear aud tear and toll and self-denia, are
so much plunder; and asks TO whom they shal Dc
given up as reparation and restitution
Although she said this raging she said 1t in voice
so far from being beyond her CONTROL that was even
lower than her usual tone. She also spoke Win Seu'
distinctness.
Renaration 80 said She "Ycs truly. 1t Is easy for
him 10 talk of reparation, fresh from ourneylng and
iupketting in foreign lands, and living uie oil VANITY
and Measure But let him look at me, in prison, and
in bonds here | endure without murmullng, because
il is appointed that shall so make reparaton ior my
| sins keparation l. there none III this room! nus
there been none here these fifteen years "
Thus was she always balancing her bargain with the
Majesty of heaven, posting up the entnes 10 heI
credit strictly keeping her set-oh, ana claiming her
due She was only remarkable IN this, Tor the force
and emphasis with which she dld II: lhousahas upon
thousands do il, according TO their varying manner
every day.
Flntwncb, give me that book -
The old man handed il TO her from the table. she
nut two fingers between the leaves closed the book
upon them, and held up to her son IN threatening