The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-04

o. a second Elizabeth Fry, or member
Of the Moral; Reform Society: She ::
should be piled with questions about
her proteye and the internal arrange
ments Of her house, aud should give of.
fensc if these questions were not satis-
factorily answered. So she continued
tor seven days to visit Mrs. Howard
just after dark, at time when she
would meet the doctor on his second
daily visit. She never went without
being dogged by the indefatigable
Twinzy, who twice secured the attend
ance Of Thompson, Voonderstaun and
summerield, that by the mouth of
many witnesses her disgrace might be
established
- at the end Of the week she attempt
ed to rise as usual one morning, and
tell back ovcrpowered by illness. In
an hour she was raVing in delirium, and
By noon Mrs. Walters was quite at her
wits end, and consulted Mr. Twinzy as
to wbat was 20 be done. That gentle
man assumed an air of benevolent con-
slderation, paced the floor prettily,
clasped and uncIasped his hands pity
ing!y, talked Of tie poor little thing
patronizingly, and sadly sighed at the
thought Of his being SO fond of him,
but concluded that selt,preservation
required Mrs. Walters to send her to
the poor house.
When she suggested the probability
Of her husbands displeasure at such
disposal of one whose aithfulness and
skill had probably saved the life of one
at least Of their children, the doubt,
.perplexity and sorrow of his manner
was not all assumed, for ker conscience
was i'll at ease, and was making a de-
termined protest as he picked his steps
over the carpet with eyes bent upon it,
and his bands caressing each o'her in
their peculiar way Of beating time.
Mrs Walter. saw he was keeping some
thing back, and urged bin TO speak.
With : deep sigh be toek seat BY
table, passed his hand: :thoug6tfally
over his top knot, then began turning a
book around between his thumb asd
finger, and slowly keepiug time, as he
brought QUO end after the other down
on the table:
AHou know, cousia Hal, I do not
want to interfere about th;s,sirl."- Hee
he sighed deeply. s"As a gentleman, L.
cannot wish to injure her, after the re-
latien we hive sustained to each other.>
As long as l could telieve thatsI might
have been greatly to blame in. the af-
fair, or that her weakness in nay case
was first and last fault, of course 1
was bound to shield her from exposure,
and not deprive her Of the power to
make an honest living if she should be
so disposed, but it does trouble me to
see you imposed upon by her, to see
you made a dupe,'' being uaable to bear
TIE though and remain quiet, he arose
and resumed his walk, sishing heavily,
hcsitating and placing the seal of pre-
priety on his lips.
":What do you mean, Ed? Her
dupe ? Row?'
"You will not be angry that l have
not told you sooner 2 aud you will not
expose her? Promise me these two
I things"
::"Of course will DOT but, for Gods
sake, WHAT'S it? You frighten me!
Go on or you will drive me crazy"
But Mr.. Twipzy was not to, be hur-
ried out of his compassionate hesitation.
Alter walking some moments and ex-
claiming @'poor thing" he resumed his
seat and his book and went on:
"You have probably observed her
going out in the evening lately ?" On
being assured that the observation had
been made, he resumed "Welt, on my
way from Thompson's, saw her CON-
ing out of a house of the worst charac-
ter, on - street. It had BEEN point
ed out to me as where Mrs Howard
lives. I was greatly surprised, greatly
surprised, that sue should go to such
place at all, but more that she should
choose time when sickness made her
so very indispensable that DR.. Boswell
and Walters appeared to think the
children would all die if she were out
of the room an hour" This observa-
tion was skilifully thrown in to fire tue
weak jealousy Of the weak woman ; and
as he noted'its effect he slowly proceed
ed !: ~ thought maybe she had gone
in, not knowing the character Of the
house, to makesome inquiry; but when
I saw her go out the next evening I
determined to satisfy myself aud fol-
lowed her: She went directly there,
and just after she entered a Close car
riage'-bat why follow his account Of
circumstances with which our readers
are familiar? ? His materials for tale
we're of the FIRST order, and none better
than he knew how to make use. Of
them. When he had finished and his
hearcr, in burst of indignation, was
ready to go up stairs aud have our her,
oiue thrown into the street, he soothed
and restrained her and couuseled pru-
dence. He had not yet made his tell