The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-27

And punishment st.h awaits youf" 70
joined she.
mo, mol" he cried, o. he rose and place.
bis foot hsmly on the floor. 81 am free
the heart NAV hate me, the tongue maj
scorn me, the hand may point ct me, hat 1
dare not strike. Ga the 29th Of September
was no longer amenable to the laws for ths
crime which drove me 10 fcreie lands
twenty years free the culprit from the ven
geance OF man; the last day Of that period
vas the 2eth OF September--it il past and
now God y my only judge" He again
paused. "Bot must still live az David
Wallace. The name Of Scott shall not bs
sollied BY me. As David Wallace I have
made my fortune, aud as DAVID Wallace
made my supplications to Heaven. By the
same name have bought Whitscraigs, and
by that name / shall make ii over 10 one
who may yet retrieve the honour OF our
humble house-to Alice, who should
through other means, have been mistress.
Come to your natural protector, Alice, and
tell him If You will consent to be the lady ol
Whitecraigs"
The girl, on whom the ordinary occur.
rences OF life now seldom made any i'm
preston, had listened attentively to the ex.
traordiuary facts and intentions tn Us evolved;
and, at his bidding, rose and stood by his
side He took her hand, and looked INTO
her face.
81 knew" said he, "thAt was pledged
not 20 mention q certain name while YOU
were by; and ] kept my word, with the ex-
ception Of the whisper stole into your ear
on the day set out for Peebies. But things
are now changed. Tue rights Of White
craigs are now in the act OF being made cut
in your name. Within q month you will be
mistress of that mansion, and of those green
dells and hills you have loved TO wander
among in joy. and in sorrow. Now, will you
answer me question:"
ii will !" she replied.
"What wouli be your answer to Hector
Hayston-who IS now no longer a husband,
and no longer rich-were he to come to
Whitecraigs aud make amends for all that il
BY and goOef Would you receive him kind
ly, or tn. n E;m from the door Of the house
of his fatherss"
The question was too sudden, or too
touchingly devised. She looked for a mo-
mer in his face, burst into tesrs, and hid
her face in his breast.
''Try her poor heart not thuslp cried the
mother. "Time, that as yet has done moth
ing but make ravages, may now, when
things are so changed, work miracles. Do
not press the question. A woman and
mother knows, better than you cah or do,
what are now her feelings. The answer il
not asked-Alice, your uncle has taken back
his question:"
81 have-I havel" replied be, as he press
ei her to his breast. "Look up, nv dear
Alice. have, in my pride ami power, been
hoaf sEo.,wEs I I l., l. e
woman as have done my ,vn, even in its
rebellion against God. i have yet all to
learn Of those secret workings Of the spirit,
in all save repentance. | never myself knew
what It was 70 love, far less what it Is to love
and be forsaken. No moreno more. |
will not again touch those strings"
And, rising hurriedly, he consigned the
maid to her mother, ana went out, to afford
her time to again collect her thoughts. Du
ring following week the furniture of
WhItecraigs was disposed Of by Nm Pringle,
FOR behoof of the other creditors of Hayston,
and purchased by the uncle, who took an
other journey to PeehIes, for the purpose Of
negotiating the sale. and making iurther'
preparations for ootainlng entry. In fort
night after, the keys were sent to Home
stead. by the messeilger, while the tnakaE
up sf the titles was instte course of pg5s
gress. II was no part Of the intention 0s'
Wallace to reside in the mansion house,
his object was still secrecy; and though the
form and character OF tue transaction might
lead ultimately to a discovery, he cared not
Be- the prescription Of the crime he had
committed, he was free from punishment;
whila, bv retaining his name, and living os-
tensIbly ia humble condition, he had u
chance Of escaping a detecuon Of his true
character, at the same time that he might,
by humility and good services, render hIm-
self more acceptable 70 that Great Power
whose servant he considered himself to be-
On the twenty-hrst day Of October the
house of WhitecTaigs was again open. Ser
wants had been procured from PEBBLES; the
fires were again burning; the wreaths of
smoke again ascendei from among the trees.
and life and living action were taking the
place Of desertedness. Ga the forenoon OF
that day, Wallace took the two females from
Homestead, and conducted them, hanging on
his arms, to their new place Of residence. To
speak OF feelings, where a change compre-
bends an entire revolution Of o life Of habit,
thought, and sentiment, would be as va..a as
unintelhgIble. From that day, when the
AhSsS ha0 P0N thC h1fDk QaCottOu "
niece, q change might have been detected
working gradual Influence on her appear
ance and confuct. Might we say that hope
had again lighted her taper " .shin the r.
cesses where all bad been so long dleary
darknessi The change would not au horize
an affirmative--it would have startled the
ear that might have feared and yet loved the
sounds. Ooe not less verscd in truman ma
ture might be safer in the construction de-
rived from new objects, new duties, new de-
sires, new thoughts, from all the thousand
things that act on the mind in this wonder
full scene Of mans existence; but would he
be truer to the nature of the heart that
has once loved2 We may be contented with
a mean, where extremes shoot into the dark
ness OF ouf mysterious nature Alice Scott
took in gradually the interests OF her new
| sphere; did not despse the apparel suited
to it; did not reject the manuers that adorn-
ed it; did not turn a lea. ear or dead eye
to the eloquent ministers that lay around
amidst the beauties Of Whitecraigs and hall
ed her rs mistress, where she was once a
servant, il not beggar.
Meanwhile the house OF Homestead was
enlarged, to fit it as residence for the
uncle. Mr.. Pringle was continued agent
for the proprieress Of Whitecraigs; anc,
while many, doubtless, spoculated on 4
thousand theories as to these strange oecar-
Iences, we may not deny 20 Hector Hayston,
wherever he was, or in whatever circum.
stances, some interest in what concerned
him so nearly as the disposal of bis estate,
and the fortune Of her by whom his FIRST a.
iectiens had been awakened. Nsither shal
We say that Wallace and Pringle had not,
too, their secret views and understandings
and that the latter was not silent where ths
interests Of bis old employer called Tor con.
tidence. In NIL which we may be justified
BY the fact that, one day, the agent b
WhiEecraigs introduced 70 the bachelor b
Homestead . young man: II was the lormeI
proprietor Of Whitecraigs
1T is natural, Mr.. Wallace said Mr.
PriDgle, "that -,ae should wish to revtsi
the scenes. Of bis youth-especialiy," hi
added with q smile. when these have bee,