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, s1quhihthnco OotWeen your son and me- Ihs
hisehood viii MOI enduro--Now you can go
lie opened the door and passed out, feolior
. sort ofself oongratulation when Il closed an
he was out in the open air.
Homeward moved Judge Lane, a wiser mai
in as-much a. he determined nsyor TO run
similar encounter and ever after, in affairs o
that nature, 70 condno his advice and expostu
latious 20 his headstfong and rebellious son.
When the door closed, Clara's uunatura
strength gave way sho tOttorcd, stretched on
her arms and fell slowly forward upon the floor
She had not tainted, her eyes were open, full o
agony, but she had no power TO move.
Many moments passee-to the phrenzied cir
they seemed like the duration Of eternity. Il
was OILY when she heard a sound 10 ono OF the
upper rooms and knew that hor mother had
awakened that che found strength to stir.
Even in that horrible suffering, with which
tho pings of death could boar no comparisOn
her pride al led her. She clutched up fold OF
the homemade carpet and drawing her seli
YEARLY ward reached a chsir seized il, and
drew herself upwards.
After she 'ank into it, thoro WA another brci
but terrible spasm which soomod rordng her
very frame; when that passed. sho sat thorc with
q sort Of cAlmnoss which was torriblo o look
| upon. She even took up her needle work, held il
| before her face aud appeared to work; 70 stung
| WIS the gtls pride and will that oven in that 10
tano mitery sho conld press back her tortured
uNhIl hlu rtUNOlAnDffeil lui1 Ino coming which
uffering must ov0r wsar ia the presence Of any
human Lcing
CHAPTER v.
Under any circumstances, brought up even in
cCtslort aui ain uonce, pride would have been
the great fault Of Clara Andorson's character.
but reared M sbe had been under the iron hand OF
toll ard ptivston, treated with indignity by
those whom The felt TO be her interiors in all
mental qualities, with ito presented to hur IN
ono Of lis most irksomo phases, that pride h ID
grown hko u upas tree, blightng Thousand
sweet and kinder emotions which removed
from its bauciu effect, would have sttengt heu,d
ard bloom5d into perfect n that might have
rendered her minl hcalthy and nUbli
How dcCp ana unaltcfaUlo her love wls for
Fdsud lano sho herself har lly cjmpr.hcnGed.
In her loioy oNisttnce, affection Vas O very
different from what il HoIld have been with "a
Young girl surrounded b, friends and tho pea
iur,3 hitting her age. 10 Clara it had grown
something far b,lotd a romance or dream,
that ono solitary love had entwiuld its.li about
tho worry tpiinlS Of her bsin,s aud an attempt 70
upros, II 'rou q have destroyed hor Whole lt,.
She did not know this; In tho tumult Of pas
sion ail pride -hn had no time to Ia nix Of con
| foqucnces. She only lonyod 20 cause hCsslf
the ecvoro.t possible pain, to blct out every
| CLEAN OF tunshire, tear Up oyOry sweet blossom
Vi hope ami fling horsoli down in the darkness
which hor pride had Ar listed tho cruelty others
in bringing uTon hor. Like a hunted animal
| that madly ungos among thorns and down
btchon rock-, sho turned madly into the thOtnies,
vath aud wording herself with bitter thoughts
| kent c,nNAutly a. work, allowing lor~olf noi
thsr f,,t from toll nor pain. Her Hethor pl sadod
win Der iTalt'oesy to seek ,Jma relaxation, for
thofc Was somsthi'S 'af,liag in her hag ard
! 10 Va.
"a mus got juat 10 m CT work done this
| Oh w,s her inVar able answer IL will rest
wall rs you please af,erward.'
Tho old woman knew her daughters dctor-
mined character 20 veil that she IN do no AZ.
tempt 60 oppose 1t, only mutterng frotlully ,
you'll axe your elf sick, ihon what will
become Of US should like to know
" Our kind and goolhcIrt'l neighbors-wo
viii depend on tucm, topl'oi Clara bi farly.
" lin 'hirtrg If We waited fer hem we
might both die hero without help was the
! t,c.lo urly.
"vc', G~rly mother, bu / d, no. iotond
You WI, though you are az wAito as a
sNeot now"
"Ihat proves nothing"
"wh trou los you, Clara, DO toll mo,
Nothing Gt all mother.
That's tho way sou ALWAYS put mo Oh YOU
don't tel mo anything any more than If | was
stranger
81 have nothing TO toll-how can you ask
tu qlgstionbf
81 don't kGow bu' sou don't act like your
! Sol am euro tltfe ~ NuUloinlUE inc mllit r.
rlca.o don't imagine such things, mother
! YOU vii Only make mo fancy myself i'll or mis-
| cradle when am not. -
- wish it WAS al fancy, muttertd tho old
ladv.
"Aul e is; am perfectly well, why will
you think otherwise p
Mrs. Anderson ceased hor exp,stulations
tlty wcro perfectly usde AID only gave pam
10 9TH. BI'k to her sowing wont Cha H. stitching
and hemmiug with the regularity Of machine,
yet all the whilo feeling al # vice were press.
ing uown upon her forehead and tho slms ter.
iihle eight that had lain on her heart for DAYS,
grow hotNio r day by day until II was an effort
TO rpoek or move.
She cou not think other conversation wit,
judge l.auu without feeling every Nj tor feeling
IL her nature rise up with increa sod violence.
She only regretted that she hal not spoken moru
harshly, -he WITS glad to remember every cruel
word that passed her lips. Had Edward been
present shc would lot have hesita ID, his
pleading ewes or his reproachos woull only have
LathJd tho r.tort, which flashed through her
brain with k'cner sting.
Lat Il all 20, hope, love, youth, and Oh If life
would vanish With them ia their blight 80 much
the bdtCr-let the erd come, what it might be
she ca',d rot in her reckless grief.
Ii il difficult 20 understand the state of feel
ing into which Clara had boon thrown. 1t was
moro like INSANITY than am thing else. ndor
other Circums NJ cos her anguish would have
been similar TO that OF any other young girl
who raw great hap i've ruiely torn from her
| gap, hut the bard lc. sons Of her le tho BIT
ter portion which fate had always dealt out 70
her, robbed that proud soul of tho Tenderness
a i devotion which alono could have beeh of
aval iu her distress. Thus days passed; they
were only ctascles' round of pain Tor she coul
neither rest nor Sleep. Tho nights woro even more
irksome, for then she could only lie and think,
she had not even the resource Of tho uu'emit
ting toll which she helped tho droary hours Of
| sunlight onward.
While time worc on thus with Clara, Edward
Lane was in New York. lilo had received her
cruel letter, II was the List blow required TO
m AXE him perfectly d-sp rate.
II was as well that those who loved him and
who in spite of all, had his Interests at heart,
| could not soc him then.
| He was doing his character more injury by
his reckless, mad folly than years could ever
eradicate; yet no was to bo pitiod even moro
| than blamed, for il was very hard at that age
and with his impetuous ieelings to DO thwartcd
! in his dearest hopes, made to feel that no one
really cared for him and left 10 his own hurtful
/ iances and hayward temper til he plunged
into every species OF dissipation that offered be-
| Living that he could thus forget tho thoughts
! which disturbed him.
At last longing seized BIN TO return
hCmo; he felt bitter and unlorgiy ing
toward his father he was stll furious
! " h bis sisters, but Clara he must and would
| sec oucs more.
! Tho unhappy young man could not believe
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