Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-29

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A It ange expression passed orr
Jasper Lowder's face.
mo, / have no ties," lie sd
huskiIy.
/ And you will go home with mt"
"What win your father say to ~
icoming?" demanded Lowder. "Ie
will think your generosity Quixoc.
He will dismiss from his house tic
hired companion who dares to resemle
his SON"
| A sudder lurch of the little vessels
wave sweeping over the deck, interrupted
the sentsnce.
"You wrong my father" said Trcssiha,
his blue eyes kindliDg. when the vessel
had righted. "He is the noblest man n
The world. He will welcome my frlens
as his own. You will love him, Jaspc,
as do, when you know him."
"IIe doesn't seem very affccu0nat."
remarked Lowder you have been awy
from your home Tor five years, anu he las
but Just recalled you :"
| Young Tressilian's cheeks nu shed, as
Lowcer saw in the lurid glow that np-
meniarily lighted up the tempestous sceP.
"You know, or can guess, the reasd,
Jasper he said. with something of IN
effort. my father has ward, the dauA-
ter of an old friend. All, hear ths wild
schriek. The gale is increasing" =
Yes assented Lowder. "And nc
ward is Miss lrby-the goldcn-haird
Blanche of whom you have talked so
much, and with whom yol have exchaE
ed letters 2"
YES. My father formed project to
have me marry Blanche. He did no wish
us to grow up together, lest we should
learn to regard each other as brother aid
sister. When blanche came to live al tie
Court my father sent me To Germany :.
The night before l left home, he called ne
into his library and told me all his hops
and plans for my future, and enlreate
me 10 continue worthy of his innoc Ell
ward; and keep my heart pure for her
have done so, Jasper. have never YET
loved any woman. And yesterday | e.
ceived my fathers summons to come hone
He has reca led me after five years of al
scencc. | know the wish that lies nearest
his heart. lie wants me TO return ard
ana marty Blance. | shrink fro tie
proposed marriage. l dread going hong
And dread offending my dear fatha,
whom love better than any woman. il
is hard, Jasper, TO revolt against the hop,s
and plans OF u kind and generous fathe,.
whose very love for me causes him 10 urg,
on this MARRIAGE"
lis "a" said Lowder, and with strange
smile ful. of sneerIng bitterness. My ex
periences has been widely diifeient from
yours, Tresslian. Did | ever tell you Of
my father p
NO. took it for granted HAT he WIS
Dead
''Perhapshe is. don't know. . said Low.
der, with reckless laugh. But if he is
living, he is scoundrel- Don't STAT
Tressilian, al my untiiial speech. Wai
Till you hear my story. am in tlesper,
ate mood 20 night. This storm s,irs ur
all The bad within me. As nearly as can
discover, my father was the younger son
OF proud old county family"
~ on do not know, then?" asked Tres
Sllian, pressing bis companions hand.
81 have no proofs of it. All positively
know is this. My mother was of humble
station, pretty, with blue eyes and an APP
pie-bloss III face. and tender, appealing
ways She was the daughter OF "A widow.
residing at Brighton. The widow, my
grandmother, kept lodging house, and
my father, "a gay, dashing young fellow
came 10 lodge with her. As might have
been expected, he fell in love with lis
land'ady's daughter, He offered the
young girl marriage, on condition that
the union should be kept secret until his
affairs frightened and he chose to dlvulge
1t. The young girl loved him. Her moth
er was ambitious and penurious. The re.
suit was the lover had his way. anil mar
ried the daughter of his landlady qniet.y.
aim ost secretly. Then he took his bride
TO LondoI, to cheap and obscure lodgings.
whers, year ia,ar. was born-'
Inc wind FOR q moment drowned his
voice. As it presently lulled, he resumed
recklessly, and with passionate bitterness:
For years my mother and | lived in
those stuify, obscure lodgings until her
bloom had faded. AMI she had grown thin
and wan and nervous. My father visited
US at stated seasons once or twice a week
but he never broughr any of his family TO
call upon Us. doubt il his arisiocratic
relatives even suspected the existance Of
the faded wife and son of whom he was
secretly ashamed. | haye good reason to
believe that he had fine lodgings at the
West Eud, where he was supposed TO be
bachelor, and that he went into fashion,
| able society. while my poor mother and
lived obscurely. He was IA profiIgate and
a roue, but he had an air of fashion that
awakened my boyish admiration, aud
aroused my mothers affectionate pride in
him. She was always pleading to be in-
troduced to his relatives, and to have her
son publicly acknowledged. But my
father always put her OF, saying that he
was not yet ready. Worn out and dis
pairing, my mo,hef died when | was ten
years Old
Again the wind shrieked past, again the
little vessel lurched the sea sweeping
her deck.
The captain screamed his orders to bis
men, and fol few minutes disorder reign
ed.
~ nasty bit of weather :" said Lowder.
"And bad sky !"
"Yes. but have seen as bad returned
! Tressilian. ave shall make port all right
never fear. We must be well on toward
Cape di Gallo And it's only seven miles
from the Cape to Palermo.
"But the seven miles in this storm are
worse than seventy in good weather.
These coasts are dangerous, Tressiian.
Lowder shuddered as he surveyed sea
and sky.
But about ,onr father, Jasper 2" said
Tressilan, who had become deeply inter
ested in hts companions story. What
did be do after your mothers DEATH"
81 remained at the old lodgings with
our single old servant a month or more
my father visiting me several times, and
expressing anxiety as to what he should
do with me. A week after my mother.
death, he told me that his brother was
dead. A month later bis father was kill
ed by being thrown from his horse, NV
father came into riches and honurs by
these deaths. AT last, deciding 10 rid him
self of me. lie took me down to Brighton
to my old grandmother. Her sons were
| dead she had given up keeping dodgers
and was grown misery, He promised
her five hundred pounds year to keer
me, and to keep also the secret of my pa
ternity solemnly promising to acknowl
, edge me some day as his son and heir
The old woman agreed to carry ont hi
wishes. She would have done anythins
for money. / never saw my father again
went to school, grew up, and at the ag
of twenty-one came into my gradmotherl
money, the fruits of years of saving, sh
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