Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-03-18

night. when she cried for her father
took her on his knee in her white nigbt.
gown, made her say over her PRAYERS
again, and then rocked and cHoaked
over her some old dirty about sShep-
herds, have you seen my love I'LL she
/ fell asleep. The other men, tsao missed
him at billiards GROVER their stews and
ale when the papers were out toward
morning, used to unearth old Standish
| at this sort Iof work, and ioked him
about it roughly enough. But they were
| pleased when he kept her week after
week, and used to be coming in perpet-
ually with scraps OF anxious advice
4 about Group or nettle-rash, and fell into
! the habit OF buying al sorts 0 expen-
EsiVe and useless things for spoor Dur
/ broW's baby.
So it went on for years. There was
always a strong smell of cigars and
printers ink in the air child breathed,
| and no doubt when she came to be. a
/ young lady she learned Be- think in a
ascrappy, itenizing, newspaper way; ! but
Madeline's life was in fact as. cleaniy
and sweet, and tender among fhese men,
! as if she had BEEN one of rosebud
! garden Of girls, perhaps nI so What
ever garment Of lies the Major nh0sel to
put on as aTmor. or to pefk and Yalint
himself in out among otilEr rleReT he
never wore it into ''the cocsloft No
body could account for thF alnaest pa
thetic tenderness Of his love to the girl.
1t was more than seemed due for her
fathers sake, or even her own
Once, however, he had aid 10 her
"Youseame to take the piag child
that lost. That was the nlF time He
had limited at the secret d h foraer
LIE He kept it hidden even from hirn-
II came to him to-day, and would not
bs-tlarust aside. In q fsg h0nrs i8As6llld
be known to all the world. aa szeBsa
John Proctor was his SON satyii
He remembered well now the last daE
when he had called the baHrby that
name. Itwas a dreary, ~ season in.
November, three or four years before he
took Madeline. He sat bya hotel win
dow with Jack on his kiEees &c was
week since he had come from Richmond,
leaving the child mo- dead there.
He had spent the. week gong from one
newspaper Office to an0ther. sAraunting
and vaporing, and dEifi ing hard. but
with still cold Consciousness all the
time Of standing by her ION which
the rain battered, with her child's life
left IN his hands TO do aifh it what he
would. 80 e @
AIary's boy would have grown into
truthful, God-fearing man if she had
lived a gentleman, too the class which
Standish, with all his taNdry Dragging,
watched far off with Jealous awe.
Now. What could he make of the
sboy7 He took the little chaps hands in
his. and pulled them closer. trying with
his bleared eyes to penetrate the future.
Like father, ike son It was so always.
For himself, whether il vas the faint of
the butcher-shop or some flaw in his
making-up he did not know, but he was
labelled everywhere for contempt. Even
here, where he was Stranger, he was
marked already he saw As disreputable,
vulgar, a fr0thy bubble Of a man. He
was sore and CALLED By The snpbs be
had met with to-day. He sat quiet in
the CANDY hotel parl0ri holding Jack
close while the servants lighted the
lamps and people came and went he
looked steadily at the cost of what he
meant TO do.
Il take the weight Of your old faith
er off Of you, Jack, he said at last,
STOPPING to kiss tlie tat red little face.
''Iood-by3 my son.
he did take It OH he entered the
boy under the name Of Proctor at a fash |
ionable hoardlna- school setting aside
the entire sum he had saved with which
to start a paper IN PhiIadelphia. q can
scratch for myself, he said
Let the lad have everything he
wants. he urged his governess one day. |
His father had the best blood in Yir-
ginia in his veins, madam. And teach |
him religion His mother 2' but he
broke down here. @She's yonder," he |
said quietly at last. gIancing up. The
g0verness nodded, and understood him. |
4 So the feint a succeeded. Of what it |
cost himself, he said nothing it had |
lifted the boy at once, he thought, into a
pure region of fashion, and 9 refinement,
and salvation. The gfories Of the Proc |
tors, in the course of years, grew and |
multiplied readily in the Majors hand |
ling There were times when he became !
confused himself, SO real had Jacks IL |
Iustrious family grown. .Remember
your father the General, lad r he would |
cry. when urging the boy to manliness
or courage. f'Ao6leSse 06lIse Z y =.
3 I'D if ] know whether there was a
General Proctor or notf he would NUT
ter perplexed to himself afterward i
--s t.. To be continued. i