Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-17

Kenneth had stood in the doorway until now.
when, thinking some new thought, he turned
door,
These quarries at Trevean belonging chiefly
to kenneth's old guardian. Perhaps his in
nuence might help this poor fellow to some
work up there; at any rate it might be tried.
and as he pondered on this. the poor young
mother told Marion, with swimming eyes how
that WIS the gentleman who had been so kind to
her. SO this, perhaps, was why Marion came
ont to him softened and gentle.
"hes," she said, in ansHer TO his remark, az
hoIe so too; but had wanted. at least his wife
had ma, ", wanted him to stay at home little now,
I'll the baby better, or till fear myself that
the poor little thing is dying. She cannot leave
II at all, that was why"
That was why you took Nelly out to-day"
SAID Kenneth, gently. :" see, Miss Ardale; in
iced see great many things; but really 1
have forgotten something at that cottage.
Would you mind walking slowly on for
Kenneth ran back. He was very anxious, he
told the delighted wife to get pair of strong
shooting- boots made for him. Could her hus-
band be induced TO undertake them before he
went to the quarries, did she think?
piled.
No hurry" said Kenneth; ''any time will
Kenneth measured himself the woman stand
ing by and showing him how and awkward
enough he was at IT. but very merry, and did
nor seem 10 care to be particular. 1t was not
long before he fastened after Marion whom he
overlook just as he was about to turn into the
woody outskirts of the park.
g That poor little woman told me something
about you, Captain Goring," she said, looking
at him almost as If she we're proud of him.
what she thought very noble act OF yours"
:" She must be a bit of muff, l fear" said
Kenneth, as he closed the gate behind them.
Captain Goring," she said, al want to ex-
plain something to you, please" She saw he
was listening with even more than courtesy,
and she did not wait for an answer 81 have
ny nd ud IN al
you came" He did not attempt to contradict
this: and, though she went on bravely, he
thought she WINGED q little. "What do in
in the sort of work at which, as you said, YOU
caught me to-day, L have to do without my
mothers knowledge. She hates-she does not
like having anything to do with the poor; and
is so difficult to do right! Indeed do not know
what right-which is right to do"
Her hands were clasped as they hung before
her, and her eyes we're wide and bright, but she
kept back the tears.
'.You are right" said Kenneth, emphati-
cally, not knowing much about it herself save
by instinct. You are decidedly right"
You began to tell to me to-day, at Marys
cottage" she went on humbly, that 1 might
have got help. But might not, unless l paid
for it; and you must know-of course you have
always knOwn-that 1 am pOwerless to do that,
being-being," she said, with keen little
laugh, "abOut as well off as the poorest among
them, save in the outward adorning provided
by mother. III 1 had allowed you to finish yOur
why not send a servant from home to do what
I-what you and Ibid this morning? 1t is
simply impossible, as, lift had been disco vered,
she would have lost her place at once whoever
she may have been. Oh, what thraldom it is
Butwhat was going to say? Oh-sO you see
now why could not tell you where used to 90,
and what used to do
But should have loved" began Ken
meth when she interrupted him hastily.
"Well, another thing may as well say, Can
tain GOring,-you dsliked my mother and nv
of md
made no secret OF it. You would not come near
us; and when you did, "was only done to please
your mother. saw it first by her letter, then
by your manner; and all my pride rose in re-
bellon. j determined that, as YOU were bent
upon thinking scornfully and CONTEMPORARY
of us, you should have cause for doing SO. Ana
have given You cause (have L not?) up to this
very last day. IL was piece of grlsh temper
perhaps, which you cannot understand, though
you have felt the consequences, and must have
had a thoroughly unpleasant visit among us"
"Do you dislike me as you have seemed to
dO?h asked Kenneth, quietly.
No, no. Why should L dislike you?" she
asked.
a. Nor have you succeeded in YOUR Aim. he
went on. Z" have not had cause to think
seornfully and contemptuously of you at all.
See what failure it is?''
In the shady quiet wood, he took her in his
arms, and kissed her again and again. Shyly
she drew away as he whispered his loving words
81 have been unloved ali my life," She faI-
tered " What is there to love in me? Oh Ken
81 have thought, and now say it, he an
swcred, his blue ewes full of truth and earnest
ness, - will say to my love that love herr
Mrs. GOring wondered at her sons continued
absence, and REQUIRED merrily in her letters to
his unwillDgness to go to Erstone, and his I'M
willingness to leave it,; but when he came in on
the day his leave expired, and told his own
story in his straightforward simple way, she
looked up at the son of whom she was so proud
and the tears gathered, a widowed mothers
will, at the first consciousness of not being first
world Nnt fbat Sha
fretted long: Kenneth was just the loving son
OF old, and besides that, had lost the hot impa-
tient temper which had often sorely tried her
So the mother was not the least happy of the
group that gathered round him Oh his wedding
day, when such grateful prayers and earnest
wishes came from the cluster OF bright eager
faces that had gathered outside the little church
at Erstone. Conspicuous among these was a
cheerful young shoemaker, with an enormous
amount OF hair mot at all mildly aromatic)
on his long black locks, and a very baggy sleek
black suit; who had come over from his cOmfor-
table little home among the quarries al Treyean
on purpose TO See this wedding, and to take back
all particulars to his wife.
It's as putty a weddin' as need be-" said he
to Captain Goring's groom, who happenec to
be standing next to him. :" She's got a sweet,
bright face upon her; and he's about the best
shaped foot as ever L see. I've made his boots,
We see, a'Ore now"
And Barry, who wore those boots out a good
while ago, says nothing in answer to this; but
elbows his way through the crowd, and throws
his hat well up with a cheer As Kenneth brings
bis wife through the low-arched doorway and
stands an instant, looking down into the cheery
faces