Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-21


clap her 10 his breast aud kiss her l could
only see his back. and my heart beat 80 vio-
ently ! could hardly breathe. What more was
! | ~ bear To the affection VI my only
blessing won from me by a stranger, to see him
| embrace her before my eyes, and she to submit
| vas hardly sensible, but ] managed to enter
the room. As che door opened, Ellen bust into
my arms, and rried-"Papa, papa has returned
/ lie is bere--he 10 here % knew no more till
I woke upou my bed. and saw stpnding at the
foot the man who had uiued all my hopes aud
happiness etill in his corrupt beauty, faded as
10 was, aud beside him our daughter, more Il
lin than had ever conceived Oh that ] had
not lived TO see the day Had the news Of my
late for une brought him hack, like vultune,
10 the pTeyl Or was he penItent Was he
to rctufn AS prudigal and were VIC Row at last
to be happy
My illness was very severe the recent shock
coming upon my already weakened frame,
made It even critical, and for days l WIS uncon.
soious and what my uhrestralned tongue gave
vent to, cannot tell, but they were burning
words-the pent.up thoughts aud troubles OF
yeals-strange combinations Of the past aud
present, all clustering round ono centTe--the
man who wTOnged me, who had 80 broken all
his vows But as / mended, ,hs lowering
clouds that so disturbed me cleared away, aud
l saw day by day, and hour by hour, although
without fairly realizing it, Authur, the cause Of
all my cares, ever about my bed, and, with
Ellen, anticipating my every wish.
never missed him; he seemed TO live in the
room, and, weak as was, l saw an expression
Of deep anxiety and interest in his face which
was new indeed. They seldom spoke TO me,
for the DOCTORS orders were for silence, but in
my drOwsy state / saw them often talking to-
gether, and he reading to her while she work
Ell. Little as l could realize all the blessedneFs
of the change, Il wrought wonderful effect ON
me: it gave the healing peace Of mind | chief.
y needed, and worked the cure.
Soon was convaIescent, for the crisis past,
nature hastened to restore ITSELF and then with
joys bright as the beauties of the rising sun,
life seemed young again, and with a horizon
still that promises happiness The tale were
long to tell of all that happOued in those weeks
OF Illness: to me they had been lost time, but
I to my child and husband they were indeed mo-
meutoUsi and happy was the suffering that
bore puch joyful fruit for Ellen told me that
when lay unconscious and hardly breathing,
/ her father, struck with the memory Of former
days, touched by the old love that once burned
within him, knelt by my side, and gazed steadi,
y in my face. lie spoke not, but the working
Of his features told the mind within Noise
lessly, Ellen came and knelt beside him, and,
placing an arm round his waist, claimed him
as her parent. Flesh aud blood could no lon
ger resistth fresh call on his sympathy. IN
a voice hOarse aud broken with emotion, he
cried Il have teen vlan--a base villain
Your mother was an angel; she gave up every
thing for me. No Ellen, | will go--l will not
darken your life, as ! have hers Tell her, on.
; ly tell her, when she reooyers, that have gone
never TO forget this day She may hear OF me
again, but not as of old. If It is not too late,
will yet do something worthy Of her love.
And here he rose to 90
) Ellen flung herself upon his breast, aud told
, hlm all the strange vcissitUdes OF fortune, the
? cluse economy of Horngrave life, the bright
prospect of Killigreen, the noble self.sacrifice
aud how that | loved him still She was sure
that my life was desolate and dreary as her
tale was telling, his eye frightened, his color
! came; and when she cCnscd he clasped her Ia
his heart. "YOur mother has been, and is, a
perfect woman. | will reform, by the love |
once swore to bear her by the vow to cherish
l her; and you, Ellen, shall be my monitur,-
you shall restore me, and be the mediator be
: tween your mother and me" As he spoke, be
kne!t by my bed, and kissed mo with an earn.
estness he had never known before. From that
moment, the promise was fulfilled. But had
= something yet to hear, aud bitterly at the mo
r ment did it affect me, though now the recollec
ton of It is great comfort My troubles had
n been partly my own causing. After the wretch
c ed night when Arthur lost so much, l had acted
}. wildly and imprudently gambling had been a
/ passion with him. and he had penerally been
i successful in fact, he looked upon it as a Ger
p tain source Of income, and, poor as he was, he
& did not like his dependence upon my for une
Attempting 10 win by cards aud fortun,
J. wealth for himself he had lost nearly oil tina
=. belonged to me by right In the agony of loss
It he struck blow he could never forget he wai
r mad at that moment the fend had him a
y command. The duel, and his aud my illness
II maintained this deplOrable state of mind h,
/. was jealous of the Baron, and even doubted m,
It faithiulness. My subsequent coolness hurried
:. things to crisis he was persuaded that th,
j. Baron and had leagued together to Jestro,
e him, and in this conviction desperately plungeC
It into dissipation then left hun for England
;. and soon after the Baron left Baden too.
n For months he had been i'll an old friend o
o bis family had found him in great distress ant
u left hun money sufficient for immediate need
e, On his recovery, dcspairing Of ever Tegaininl
=, my love, and hating his own country, he deter
q mined to 60 10 India aud begin life anew. III
3. bad powerful friends there, who procured hin
= such an appointment as he was in need Of III
was appointed resident OF the barbarous cour
d Of Dude, and there his reckless courage game,
IT him vast influence over the savage chiefs an,
Y mobiles BY careful management, he gained
n considerable fortune and then, sobeTed an,
. more content To live, thought Of returning /
y England TO satisfy lis conscience about me
/ for ct times he had thought that his suspicious
70 strong as they we're, might be wrong, and cve
ID then might be waiting in faithful poverty 70
a. his return,
u lie journcyed TO Calcutta and took passap
- in homeward. bound vessel, with his propert
81 IN gold and jewels on board BY singular "a
in tality the vessel was lost aud he was the onl
IN passenger who escaped After much hardship
as the officers and crew were saved by pasi
Y ing vessel, and he at length reached Englan
10 with a heart almost broken by misfortune
It, Casually, he read in an old country newspape
el the account Of our Killigrcen fortune aud sui
- sequent loss and with heart bursting wit
e mingled feelings, he hurried to IIorngrave, an
le found Ellen alone, as | have described The
q. came my illness IN the long weeks of watch
c ing, bis better feelings gained the victory ant
as ennobled by mist0rtuue he found at length th
ye happiness he had long deemed as lost IT.
ln His services ia India soon procured him a
TO appointment at home, and though we are sti
poor, we have enough for all our wants Al
be thur, no longer young, no longer handsome q
Of he was, seems 20 be moro beautiful than eve
u. Our Trials are over be has done all he prom
y ised he is fEithtul, and our happiness is seeur
NJ We do not own a KilHgreen but we marie
( Ellen from happy home, and her children no
SO delight their grandmothers heart
ID .... b ...
IB~Gsn. Tom Thumb (Charles s. stra
20 tom was to leave Liverpool on Wednesday las