Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1871-09-07
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A fearfully. cold. clustering day il vas.
late in December. just At tho season when
mirth and pleasantly should have reigned
supreme over their subjects but . time
Of unutterable desolation to at least one
woman. as she stood alone at the door oi
her late home. with sweeping gale, as il
dashed BY laden with fne dust. and sting.
ing chill, freesing her in its ruthless pitt.
lcssncss.
She locked up and down the long. de-
serted street. that never looked drearier
than then. as she babe il q uournful, ST.
lent good-by.
Opposite. the doors were all fast closed.
and in the rapidly gathering twilight she
saw the warm glow Of the FIRE, the ruddy.
welcoming lights that had been seemingly
lighted to mock her own loucsomencss
and it seemed to her. in her bitterness.
that she could see a mocking, derisive
smile on the face of all Valley Point. that
she. proud Isabel Kent. the daughter. and
once the heiress Of proud lawyer Kent.
was tonight to leave her home poor
girl, to battle with the world. who had
once been her slave, and was now her
master.
With ! SILVER. lessof cold dthaS distress.
Isabel Kent turned away from the dark
ening streets. and into the hall of the
large. elegant, empty house.
A single gas-burner was lighted, send
ing the shadows from one place into an
other. and that was all the light there was
to illumine her departing footsteps.
In the silent parlors. where the rich.
gilded paper. aud heavy carved ceutre-
pieces seemed to mock the empty desola-
ton. stood her trunk, packed and strap
ped. and marked; and how the girls lips
quiveied as the light revealed the words
to her:
Il. X. Philadelphia"
So II was there she was going A hun
drcd miles from home friends-iffriends
they were. who had turned the cold shoul-
der when her fathers will had declared
her worse than penniless-had left her
fond broken heart the legacy of dishoner
and debt.
It was that knowledge that had proven
almost too much for her; otherwise. how
6acly, If sorrowfully. how earnestly, II
lonesomely, she would have borno power.
ty and faced the world. who owed her .
living.
Bus everything seemed changed now.
Even Isabel Kent had changed from q joy
GUS. careless girl to stern. embittered
woman.
A carriage rolled up to tho door. and
when the driver had attended to her lug
gage. aud the old colored servant had kis-
sed her gloved hand. she was whirlcd
away-to what she wondered, with a
mirshless little laugh. as she sat upright
in the carriage. and watched the houses
that held people. she feared. she fairly ha-
ted.
At the depot she had little time to think
the crowd. the noise, the glare. the in
coming and departing trains-for Valley
Point is an important terminus. -.
After she had purchased her tickets
and checked her trunks. she sat down on
a seat fronting the door, and so when
Champncy Roberts came in, she saw him
before no saw her.
He came over to her as soon as he re-
cogniEcd the black-robcd figure.
Isabel. am tempted to take you away
from here by simple force. I've been to
the house. but you were too quick for me.
Isabel, will you persist in this foolish
ness 7"
He had taken 40 empty seat next her
but near as he was he could not see the
paling anguish that lay in her pure clas-
sic face. or the flush Of momentary wrath
that followed his eager impulsive words.
1T is not foolishness. Champney -
What should do If did not 60 to Mrs.
Cravcns-"
He interrupted her in his quick. hot
headed. earnest way.
"Where should you 60. true enough,
my darling? Is not my home lonely for
the want Of you Does not my heart cry
out for you. its queen? Isabel, there is
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