The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-08-17

his st10u21<S and feellngS-WInOub
one bftish er qaivef, But it was not
SO now. All was not bright There
was one dark spot In his life, and its
shadow was often on his brow. At first
he had imagined that it would be very
easy to cast of his friend, and to for-'
get him; but the ordeal was more Sc
we're than he had expected. He met
in the street almost every
day but did not speak with him. He
met him at church, and on 'Change,
but did not salute him. In order to
do this it was necessary that his re-
solve should be fortified ;and in order
to fortify the resolve it was necessary
that he should keep in memory the
wrong he had suffered. Thus the very
means which enabled him to carry out
his purpose of enmity furnished fuel
for continual fire of iIl-feeling in
his bosom. ilfi3nt s5vtA4 = -@f "a
1t was sad to see those two men so
far apart, it panied others besides
themselves. 1t made their wives un-
happy and led their children into un-
pleasant moods, and whenever they
both chanced to be present in any
assembly as was sometimes necessarily
the case, an atmosphere of GOODNESS
and unpleasanfness came with them
and peryaded all about them.
3" Never fnever neVerw said Aaron
Gould, as he went out from his house.
H I'll have no more to do with him L.
I'll speak to him never again. -.
AS he passed on to his store he met
Gilbert Harwood in the street. He
saw who the man was and then turned
his head and walked on. 1t was not
a pleasant emotion that he experienced
then-far from it. 1t was a painful
emotion, and the feelings which it
called up remained to pain him for
hours. If he could only have made
himself believe that Harwood was
unworthy of love. or respect, or if he
could have convinced himself that
Harwood was much different from the
friend of other, years, or, further still,
if he could have laid the soothing
JUNCTION to his soul that he himself had
been guilty of no wrong towards the
estranged one-if he could have done
this helcould have borne the burden
with clearer conscience. AS it was,
the thing yielded him a, vast deal of
uneaslness and unhappiness., He was
not the free and Independent man of
other days. He could not walk the
street without being liable to meet the
man he feared to meet. 81 Il 3ed
Why should this one thing trouble
me ?" said Aaron Gould. In all the
rest of my life there is no dark spot.
So little a thing is nothing to me-" 9a
j.. All. pebble of the size of the tenth
part of a pea is very small thing, but
vo,u r,noarn fo hlo n
have in ones boot. A little mote
floating in the air is smaller still--so
small that the vision can hardly per-
ceive: it-and yet, that tiny mote,
lodged within the delicate structure
of the eye, may. become a source. of
exquisite pain. And the human soul
is as sensitive as is the foot or the eye.
A very little thing of i'll lodged there
in is sufficient to cause great disturb
ance. In short, Aaron Gould waslike
a watch which has one of its little
wheels disabled by the bending of a
single cog. Whenever the revolving
of the machinery brings that cog into
play, there must be a convulsion OF
the whole structure. ..-....-
q !" HarWood is in rather hard fix
said man in Aaron Gould's store,
one day. YHalAt vgaad - 81 tfigf
i, Do you mean Gilbert Harwood,' 2
asked a by--stander. !, ,.;saas ,f..sa-,,
37'si Yes 3s'' ''''i5VP - = l@'a'= :
" WHAT'S the trouble s'i .'sy So = 9fil
4" Why, old Seth Piper has come
down ON him, and he is likely to lose
his river land" s.s a..r,,-.- 49,,
"How is it?" asked a third party,
who knew nothing of the merits of
the case. ,te8Issa1l 5sfet~ b3iiH y 5iAi 10
aThus it isl said the first speaker
&c Some years ago Hilbert Harw ood
lent his name to q friend-signed that
friends paper to the amount of some
thousands of dollars-the friend died,
and Harwood had to pay the whole.
In doing this he was forced to mort
gage his river land very heavily Seth
Piper, by some means, has come into
possession of that mortgage, and now,
through Ieea course, is about to take
possession of the land..' EIlsofsa -fa.si
The land is valuable, then ~ said
the questioner.
H2tf Bless you, yes. The best water
power in this section of the country
is upon it,. Harwood has been offered
five thousand dollars just for the priv
ilege, but, you see, he had planned to
erect mills himself, and would have
done so ere this, had it not been for
his misfortune in lending his name to
his friend" na5i.,.-.fy.r7 ,efita a{4 ri
"How much is the amount of this
mortgage ?" ='''s. -
-" "About eight thousand dollars
Under ordinary circumstances he
could easily raise the money, but now
he finds it impossible. Those who
owe him cannot pay, and his business
is SO cramped that he dares not trust
his paper in the market. If he could
but Piper will not spare him. In fact
Seth Piper is bound to have those r1v-
er lots about the falls, if the thing can
be brought about. He bought the
mortgage on purpose to crush out the
present ownership" .fp.l - e.5f
Aaron Gould, from his counting
room, heard this conversation and as
he walked homeward that evening his
thoughts were turned into q new and
tortuous, channel. He remembered
how many times Gilbert Harwood
had helped him in business payments
and how. often, in times past, they had
ommodated each other.
! &c eAye,p he soliloquized, as he walk
ed on, g and remember how Gilbert
Harwood lost eleven thousand dollars
by signing Belknap ,Warden's paper.
And ] remember more, too; He paid
every dollar of it, and did not touch
his hand to the little property left by
the dying manHTdid not touch it, but
left it for, the, widow and orphans, He
might have taken over a thousand dol
lars If he had been so disposed, but he
was above the deed.-Haw sslsf II
ai Aaron Gould uttered this excla-
nation because he suddenly saw Gil
bert Harwood coming towards him ;
but he did not have to turn his head
away this time. No-for Harwood
was not looking up. His head was
bowed; his step was unsteady !; and
his cheek looked pale and careworn; /;
and, moreover, as he walked away in
torthe dusky shades, he groaned like
one whose sufferings had racked the
SOUL. Il istioWi bnaii q J5sls -,5i99iie3
n Aaron Gould reached his home and
sat down to his supper. His. wife
asked him If hp was i'll t'-'