Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-08-04

lnen was ner aStoniSnment as Well as
alarm and distress, when Allie was one
morning missing from her chamber, and
from her home. Her bed had not been
touched. Upon her pillow was note
directed TO Mrs Heath. Hurriedly tear
ing it open, the grief-struck parent read
that her only child, her darling daugh-
ter who, in her imagination, had been
incapable of such wickedness, had de-
serted her to elope with Charles Hast
ings. They would be back, the note
said, as soon as they were married, and
mother must try and forgive them. She
was SO good they were sure that she
would forgive them when she knew that
they were really man and wife and SO
ought to love each other.
Mrs. Heath sat down and had bat
tie with herself. When she arose, it was
with determination to make the best of
bad affair. She set the servants i'm
mediately TO work to fit up a chamber
for the young couple, for she at once un
dcrstood that she was to have them both
to take care of. As for Charles Hast
ings ever earring his own living. much
less that of his wife, she was not SO san
guine as to admit such thought mo-
ment.
When the bride and groom arrived
which they did before night-they found
their pleasant chamber ready fer them,
good supper awaiting them. and a
kind though very pale mother to receive
them; but she wept when she wished
them joy, and her tears were not turned
into rainbows by the usual bridal smiles.
"Don't cry, old lady, said Hastings,
in what he meant for gentle and con-
ciliating manner cit was rather sneak
ish to steal Allie away by night; but
then, you know, you wouldn't give her
up, and I'm sure wouldn't give her up,
nor she me, so twas the only thing we
could do; but don't LET US think any moie
about it. You see we are safe back
again, and I'm perfectly willing TO let
Allie live with you as long as you want
her. So what is there to cry for, after
aH?"
Allie blushed crimson during this
speech, the first one of such a familiar
tone liiGt Charles had ever addressed to
Mrs. Heath.
That lady replied 10 the remarks of
her son in-law only by requesting him
and his wife to sit down to supper
Twenty hours of uninterrupted inter-
course with Hastings had not made him
any more interesting and attractive in
the opinion of Allie. Sad 10 relate, now
that she had him, in spite of mother,
fate, and all tue world, he did not seem.
by many degrees, so desirable an object
as be had seemed the day before. Al
ready she was beginning to see him
with her mothers eyes-already she
was beginning TO feel that her mothers
prophecy would prove trne.
And it was not two years-it was
hardly a year and half-before there
was divorce by mutual consent
Charles being exasperated beyond all
control by Allies exhortiong to 60 to
work, to find some-almost any honest
business, TO iry and be somebody
And Allie was disguised to loathiug by
Charles want of all the elements of soul
which go to make the true man.
Bitterly, bitterly was the foolish DISC
bedience of the ening daughter punish
ed, and deeply did she repent Her
mother tried every means in her power
to improve Charles, and to create har-
mony between him and his wife; but
finding all effort to be worse than USE
less. she finally gave up to their desire
for divorce, thinking wisely that peo-
pie who live together but TO render each
other miserable, had far better by apart.
Theie are unpleasant memories now
between the mother and the daughter,
but no hard feelings. They live once
more in peace, if not in perfect happi-
ness. And it is whispered that Allie is
learning now, in a practical way, that
there is a vast difference between the
blind and fiery infatuation which some
call love, and the deep and tender truth
of the real, heaven born passion. 1t is
truesl and best of the hearts of earth.
PRGTER FOR PARDoN.-A petition was
sent recently TO the Hon. T. Fl. Hicks,
Governor Of Maryland, signed by Ia
ministers of the NJ. Episcopal Church.