The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-07-31
KENosHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1862.

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hear Tomorrow all will be discovered and
must escape. But never meant it shoul
ySSme to this; l thought l could have paid it.
i Mrs. Lane made a strong effort and mur
INJURED brokenly, Tomorrow! Oh to.mor
row Oh, my poor, ruined boy!'
L know that after deeds cannot compensate
mother; but, ifa life of recttude, if
| Robert paused suddenly and his father Ell
tered the room. A cloud instantly gathered
upon his countenance.
You here, sirrah What brings you to thu
! tome you have desecrated q
| Il came to see my mother, sir
| 1t is the last time, them said Mr.. Lane
sternly.
THE last time!' echoed Robert, in a tone o
hooking bitterness
The last time = whispered the white lips O
the mother, as her husband left the room, anC
she slid to the floor, lightly and INCREASINGLY
Robert raised her head to his bosom and cover
ed her pale face with tears.
Mrs. Lane was awakened by ihe warm drops
raining on her fsce, and starting up wildly she
entreated him to be gone.
i cannot go to night, mother. / waited to
see you, and so lost the opportunity. 1t is too
of the landings above when L leave here, and
ii the morning go aboard the first boat that
passes.
So deeply were both engaged that neither
the merry voice of Ella in the doorway, nor her
step along the hall, reached them. She enter,
ed unobserved.
Robert you here, Robertr
But neither Mrs. Lane nor Robert spoke
the boy only strained his sister convulsively to
his heart.
Alas! my poor Ella" sobbed Mrs Lane,
our Robert has come home now for the last
time-we part from him tonight forever
Foreyer!' And Elias cheek turned as pale
as the white glove which she raised to put
back her curls from her forehead.
Robert then made the same confession to
his sister that he had already made to his
mother
Your exclaimed Ella almost scornfulIy,
springing to her feet; you, Robert Lane, my
brother! Is it so, mamma? Ismy brother a
yillain-a forger Is he'-
Hush, Ella, hush = interrupted Mrs. Lane;
it is for those who have hard hearts to con-
denim, not for you. my daughter. There will
DO insults enough heaped upon his poor head
tomorrow at least let him have love and pity
here
Pity! Whom did he pity or love when he
deliberately'--
Ella stood a moment, white and trembling,
arms, exclaimed, L do pity you, but the dis
grace may be avoided. Papa will of course
shield his own name. | will go to him direct
ly.'a
Suddenly breaking trem her, she hurried up
the stairs. Along the hall she went, but when
she reached her fathers door, she paused in
dread She could hear his heavy, monotonous
tramp, as he walked up and down the room :;
and remembering his almost repulsive stern
ness, she dreaded meeting him. At last she
opened the door and burst forth
Come down and see Robert, papa come and
save him They will drag him away to prison
for forgery, and you will be the father Of con-
demned criminal, and his sister. Oh, do not
let him go away from US so Come do see
him, and you will pity him,-you cannot help
it,
Forgery, Ella He has not
He has and you must save him, papa,--for
your own, for all our sakes 7
DO you know this, Ella? It is not true
II is miserable suberfuge to wheedle money
from his mother to squander among the vile
wretches weom he has preferaed to us. No.
send him back to his dissolute'-
IS that the way to make him better, papa?'
inquired Ella raising her head and fixing her
sparkling eyes upon him, resolutely.
You sent him back to them before you
smut Inc uool Oh hIlh' 1HeIe was hoHe W say,
Take care, Roberts; and no wonder they have
made him what he is. Robert has committed
a dreadful crime, but it " as when you, who
should have prevented it, had shut your heart
against him. 1t Robert IS put III prison,
would almost as soon be in his place as yours
Ella! Eilap
4 should, papa | know you cannot do
wrong without feeling remorse You must for
give Robert, and you must save him and US the
disgrace of an exposure
Il will avert the disgrace while l have the
power, Ella, but that will not be long,ii he goes
on at this rate. DO you know the sum he re-
quires 2
He asks none. l ask for him the sum you
refused before
We'll, then, give him that, and bid him de-
part
'And may l not tell him that you forgive
hm?'
No
THAT you pity him T.
NO
May not say that when he is reformed he
may come back to ua, and be received with
open hand and heart?
Say nothing but what bid you, and go.
Ella returned to her brother. There is the
money, Robert hinging the purse on the table;
and now you must 60 back with me, and say
10 your father that you are sorry you have made
him miserable.
He will turn me from the door, Ella
And do you not deserve it?
Ella interposed the tender mother.
4 do-that, and more
The excited girl clasped both hands over her
brothers. arm and led the way up staiss while |
srm chair, leaning on table and resting his