The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-12-31

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: A strange expression passed
over Jasper Lowder's face.
No, | have no ties he said,
huskily.
"And yen will go home with
me ?''
"Wiat will your father say to
nv coming p dem sntled Lowder.
ale will think your generosity |
Quixotic lie will dismiss from
his house the hired companion
who dares to resemble his SON
A sudden lurch of the little YES
sci, wave sweeping over the
deck, Interrupted the sentence.
You wrong ny IA her, said
Tressilian, bis blue eyes kindling,
when tic vesstl had rish.ed "he
is the noblest man in The word.
He will welcome my friends as his
own You will love him, Jasper
as | do, when you know him"
He doesn't seem very affection
ate remarked Lowder. You
have been away from homo for
five years, and he has but just re-
called You
Young Tressilian' cheek flushed
as Lowler saw in the lurid glow
that nom entarily lighted ur the
tempestuous scene.
You know, or can guess, the
reason, Jasper he said with some
: q I.t !, \, q
ward, the daughter Of an old
/ friend. All! hear that wind
shrek The gale is increasing :!
Yes assented Lowder. "And
the ward is Miss Irby--the golden
haired Blanche of whom you have
talked So much, and with whom
YOU have exchanged letters 2"
esY es. Ny father formed pro
iect to have me marry Blanche. lie
did not wish us to grow up togeth
err. lest we should learn to regard
each other as brother and sister
When Blanche came to live at the
/ Court my father sent me to Ger
many. The night before l lett
home, he called me into his library
and told me all his hopes and plans
for my future, and entreated me TO
continue worthy of bis innocent
ward, and to keep my heart pure
for her. I have done so, Jasper.
/ have never yet loved any wo
man. And yesterday l received
my fathers summons to come
home, He has recalled me after
FIVE wears of absence. l know the
wish that lies nearest his heart,
He wants me to retHrn AMI marry
Blanche. / shrink from tie pro
posed marriage ! dread going
home. And / dread offending my
dear father, whom / love better
than any woman. II is hard, Jas
per, to revolt against the hopes
and plans of kind and generous
father, whose very love for me
causes him to urge on this marrI-
age.' i,
is it p said Lowder dryly, and
with n strange smile full OF sheer
ing bitterness. "My experience
| has been widely different from
yours, Tres silian. Did ever tell
you Of my father?'
No. l took it for granted that
lie is dead"
"Perhaps he is. / don't know,
said Lowder, with a reckless laugh.
But If he is living, he is scoun-
drel. Don't start, Trissilian, at
my unfilial speech. Wait till you
hear nv story. / am in hesper-
ate mood tonight This storm
stirs up all the bad within me. AS
nearly as / can discover, my faith
er was the younger son Of proud
/ old county family
You DO not know, then" asked
, Tressilian, pressing his compan-
/ ion s hand.
Il have no proofs OF IL. All
positively know is this. My moth
err was of humble station, pretty
: with blue eyes and an apple blos
som face, and tender, appealing
WAYS. She was the daughter of g
5 widow, residing at Brighton. The
g widow, my grandmother, kept
] lodging house, and my father,
G CAV, dashing young fellow. came
t to lodge with her. As might have
been expected, he fell in love with
his landlady's daughter. He offer
f ed the young girl marriage, or
{ condition that the union should bt
/ kent secret until his affairs bright
: ened and he chose to divulge it
4 The young girl loved him. He
5 mother was ambitious and penuri
|. Gus. The result was the lover hat
! his way, and married the daughte
h OF his landlady quietly, almost Sc
o cretlv. Then he took his bride t.
t. London, to cheap and obscur
lodgings, where, a year later, 1 wa
$ born
n The wind for moment drown
e ed his voice. AS it presently lull
o ed. lie resumed rccklessly, an
e with passionate bitterness
s For years my mother and
1t lived in those stuffy obscure lodg
h ings until her bloom had faded
l. and she had grown thin and wa
Y, and nervous. My father visite
a. us st stated seasons, once or twic
r a week, but he never brought an
of his family 10 call upon us.
II douot if his aristocratic relative
s. even suspected the existence OF To
In faded wife and son of whom he ws
at secretly ashamed. / have goo
id reason to believe that-hc had fin