Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-08

pie spoke of Caleb Graymarsh as a person
- wealth and influence.
: 10 his life this man hEd married Two stror
passions-the love of his dead wife and Il
greed Of wealth not the miser's loYe
boarding, bat the pride Of possession Gale
Graymarsh liked 10 see envious ewes turne
upon him, and was fond of boas ring and di
, play. Very littie sympathy had be, either, Il
poor man. What be bad done be believe
that others could do also. Those who uork
; ed for him knew this and expected no kindnes
{ IRON him. He was strictly just and some
} au'es even rewarded success by Iiberaity, bu
1ieAeser eomBisserated failure or misfortune
41sw heartily liked Kim, but all. with ehe dc
1ze7Cfu. seemed TO warm towards his son Harr,
:, Grsymarsh, genial good Dafured fellow. ius
come to mans estate. and handsome enough
TO turH the heads of all The young girls il
N. He was, as Caleb wished he might be
bis mothers image. He had her blue eve.
: aud fair hair, her gentle smile and impulsive
heart
Old Caleb had merely education enough 10
enable him to read and write and cypher ia
an Imperfect manner but his son had been
taught as well and as thoroughly a. anv lad
throughout the land. The grim factor looked
what he was Il working man risen to prosper
Gus circumstances and wearing good clothes !;
/ but the son might have been of royal blood
for any thing you could have guessed 10 The
1 contrary.
/ Once home from college young Harry
/ Graymarsh was often al the factory, passing,
with kindly laugh along the ranks OF grim
workmen who toiIed in the lower part Of the
1 Building, or pausing TO chat with some blush
| ing girl. who moved with light step and grace
| fui arms bare to be dimple elbow among the
whirring wheels aud spibdies upon The upper
floor Even The bent old men and the pale
.faefaty children had a word from him, and
many d comfortable blanket aud warm shawl
found It's way at Christmas to the dwelling Of
some old workwoman, ''dredful bad with the
rhsuhaiiz' at the bidding Of ''you9g master
Harry" 9s a-l -.g> 7a-si
: There carne AT last amongst The forces in
1he women's room one who, to The rapfurous
eyes of Hurry Graymarsh YVES wunderin!lv
beautiful. An Italian sort of face. with r. |
quid black eyes, and hair so black thar there
really was purple gloss upon il in Ae sun
shine. Ii was the lace which first attracted |
the factors son, bnt it was the saul that riyet
ed the chain which beauty had twined around /
his hear '-' j.
She was not ignor AMI and though she was peor
there was an innate refinement in every move
ment And so. by siOw degrees from casu-
al Interchange OF words, they came 10 whis-
pered tonvt rsati0ns by the river side and
long summer evening raUibles IN the green /
woods, and before long he had told her now,
beautifully she seemed to him, and how ten
derly he loved her and the girl, bv bushes
and silence rather than words, bad revealed
the secret Of her heart TO him.
And then, one glorious day when ihs sun was
sitting and great foeks Of birds were living
homeward across the cloudless skg-when the
distant mountains were all a fame and every
quivering leaf upon The tree tops shim
mering point Of gold Harry Graymarsh and
Alice Lee were betrolhed to each oiher: and
SO per fectly did she love him and trust his
love for her, that she never thought lie is
rich and ] am poor, but only .'He loves
me-
Whether in those summer rambles. Harry
Gravmarsh ever thought Of his father. de {
not know. He had never been twtarfed by
him in his life, and perhaps could mol imagine
that the rod of paternal authority should first
Sc welded in a matter OF such import be- '
des, what was there in modest, beautiful E
Alice Lee toawaken ones aversion? Certain c
It is that when one evening, sitting on the I
bank beside the river with bis arm around the I
waist of his betrothed, Harry lifted up his e
yes and saw his father standing behind him, 1
ne felt bashful and confused but not alarmed i
The old man vanished as fast as he had APP d
oeared, and peor Alice did not even SIZE hin. F.
,ut a storm was brewing, and it bfoke over c
rouug Graymarsb's head that very evening
q Do you know you are the son of the rich
st man in the place p said Graymarsh stand 81
pg crimson with rage before his son =. that "
-ou might marry an hsiress if you liked aud Il
lere Ilound' you making love to girl in my a a
'wn factory, and you say you mean 10 marry II
actually say that to my face t
" repeat it," replied Hurry, we are be b
rothedr asa b
There were hot words between father and g
on alter that Iaunts and reproacbes the first II
hat ever passed their lips. and the sun weut b
o~vn upon their wrath. They parted for the "
ig ht in their anger, and neither slept, h is
n awful thing when those who love first quar- ia
eI, and wounds are made which are harder to b
eal from the memory Of the past tenderness. "a
I'D Graymarsh had been in his own way u II
ender father, and Harry always dutilul son. Ie
I stern parent and a bad child could have Ii
een reconeiIed more easily. p'
Since afflnenee had given him an opportuui- &c
y 10 be more idle. old CALEB had felt some b
ouches OF the gout, and one Of them twinged
: d lweaked him the next morning. There
)re he sent grudging message To Harry tel as
ng him that he must 90 10 his place to The ;"
lctory that morning, atid received an angry o'
ut ohedient answer. Tnen before Harry W
"a of, u servant left he house with nnte PJ
,r A lice Lee, bidding her rot to go to work ha
lat day, but present herSelf before him in an ty
ours time She must he got rid Of, he dc
oud br,br her 10 go to some distant place
his common facery girl could not wed his tel
larry. Bui hen she stood before him in her an
odes1 beauty, il was very hard for him to an
,eak TO her as he had intended This was tie
} coarse creature. amhiIious Of wealth and nil
trine snares for he rich mans son some II,
ling "f the soul of Harry's dead mother shone tbs
,on he old man from her earnest eyes, and wa
felt somewhat soHered SIo
They we're together in little room, the va
udow Of which looked upon the factory sou
{ was srahdng near The easement with her iro
es upon the dark pile; he seated at the ta- ire
+ trflng with some papers aud wondering ITS
w to begin. In The silence, the whirr whirr
the machinery came plainly to their ears,
d Caleb thought the noise strangely
ld and distinct. He remembered that inn or
ession long after and wondered that it did i.o
t trouble him more Mt that moment As bis
was he only thought-"what shall | say; why