The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-16

I b,tI befalicn Mary, and there was even some
| taik Of its going or altogether; but though
evil Tongues spoke, the young people. being
truly attached TO each other, fulfilled their en-.
| gaceinent the next spring. and Alice removed
TO Lockwood End. Mary was then left alone
with her mother and bright-eyed, ionr-
moa,h old baby, which she worshipped as "
fpndly, aud mothered-up a. delightfully."- as
the blessing of God had been upon IL at us
coming. Old friends We're shy OF .ns ar no and
though che came primed with stern geou
counsel as she thought befitted clergyman
WIFE, somehow she did not find the oeca s.,
10 inter IT, Mary showed her BABY WIN
ner.ectly motheriy tenderness, and the sedats
,nodesty of her young face FORBADE all iihpu-
tation of lighIness, and wonld nave ihaae re,
bnke seem very inappropriate. Her enIla
M comforted her. and though Mary was
~ and then sorrowfuI, she was not misera-
HE. she looked upon ner little one exactiy as
he yyould have done had she been happiiy
welded WIFE, and this her crowning Joy. MRS;
f,ecelles had not the heart TO scoid her, and
,,.hen she went away she even kissed the child
,s IA Law in it's mothers arms, and touched
lis dimples with playful caress. Inc tears
flashed into Mary's eyes-she nad beeh SO
longing TO ask a question, aud THIS emDoiu-
cned her, though her heart beat very heavily
a, the time.
Are You likely to lose Master Frank,
ma'dml VIII he be going away 10 TINS "ai
they talk of T.
Il am afraid he will, Mary. / am sorely
afraid he will. replied Mrs Lasceles, sigh
ing. Mary.s facedrooped; she said no more
and her visitor went away without any hioFe
words.
Farmer Goodhugh took n weekly news.
paper. and every Sunday evening Mary used
10 meet her sister at the stile by A.h-poot
to receive it, and look for the Intelligence u
the removals of regimen ts--of Frank Laseei-
les regiment, that is. Mary had~1e'sr oeeh
to church since her calamity. She used 10 go
and sit through the long Sunday afternoons
on the hilltop with her baby alone ana oHer
her PRAYERS there--the GOODNESS of old friends
had made her feel herself unworthy to join
the Christian congregation IN HecKerdyke
church After tea Mrs. Ward walked with
her 10 the stiie, AMI when Alice and her nus
band appeared she would join them, and leave
Mary to con her paper with the baby in her
Ian until they returned. This was done, as
usual one beautiful pure Sunday evening,
and Mary had read, through binding tears,
that Frank was Immediately going abroad
Nobody but herself knew why she was al
ways so anxious for the paper; no matter
what she ought TO have done, she had not
ceased loving him-she thought she should
never cease 10 love him. When she had seen
the fatal words. she let the paper drop to the
ground and laid her lips to the baby's cheek
sobbing and crying. Rut Ash-pool dimpled
its dark waters i'll vain-she had that now
worth loving and living for, and the shame
was not greater than she could bear.
She had sat thus with her eyes hidden tor
some time, when hand was laid on her
shoulder, and a aforementioned voice said,
in the pleasant old accents, "Mary, Mary !''-
She sprang up; she never reproached him all
was forgotten in the greeting of the woman
who loved. For a moment only-they had
been guilty together-both very young, pas
sionate, happy. needless of consequences--but
the heavy sense of sin was between them and
its living evidence in Marys arms After the
first impulse both were silent. Frank was the
first to speak:
TcoNcIUSION TOMORROW