Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-01-04

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but his sudden recall, received yesCer-
day, causes me to return home without
writing. I shall telegraph from Marseil.
les that you will come home with me.
And you viii, viii YOU not? You viii
not abandon me, my friend? / viii
charge myself with your fortune. viii
see thaty0u obtain the position to which
your talents entitle you. You have nc
ties to Keep you on the COntinent?'
A strange expression passed over Jas
per L0wders face. .|tiuTFtf f!tA
No, have no ties, he said huskily.
And you viii go home with me?'
\ What will your father say to my
coming? demanded Lowder. sHe vii
think your generosity .Quixotic He
will dismiss from his house the hired
4 companion who dares to resemble his
Z SON
4 A sudden lurch of the little vessel, q
wave sweeping over the deck, interrupt
ed the sentence.
you wrong my father said Tressil.
ian, his blue eyes kindling, when the
4 vessel had righted rHe is the notlest
iman in the world. He win welcOme my
friends as his own You will love him,
! Jasper, as do, when you know him.
He joesn't seem very affectiOnate,
I remarked Lowder. you have been
away from your home for five years,
and he has but just recalled you
I Young Tressiiian's cheeks flushed, as
4 Lowder saw in the Iurid glow that mo
mentarily lighted up the temPestuous
I scene. t..t--..
you know, or can guess, the reason,
! Jasper he said, with something of an
effort. MY father has a ward, the daugh-
ter of an old friend. All hear that wind
shrek! The gale Is increasing 2 - g
FYes,J assented LOwder. The ward is
Miss IrbY-the g0lden-haiEed Blanche
of whom you have talked so much; and
with whom you have exchanged let
rYes. My.father formed a project to
have me marry Blanche. He did not
wish Us to grow up together, least we
should learn to regard each other as
] brother and sister. When Blanche came
to live at the Court my father sent me
to Germany. The night before I left
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 his innocent ward, and to
keep my heart pure for her. I have
done so, Jasper. Ihave never yet low
Z ed any woman. And yesterday I re-
ceiyed my fathers summons to come
ihonne. He has recalled me after five
\ years of absence. | know the wish
that lies nearest his heart. He wants
me to return and marry Blanche. !
shrink from the proposed marriage.
dread going home. And dread Offend
4 ing dear father, whom I love better than
any woman. 1t is hard, Jasper, to re-
volt against the hopes and plans of a
kind and generous father, whose very
/ love for n1e causes him to urge on this
marriage ..rI -
I : is it3 said Lowder dryly, and with a
strange smile full of sneering bitterness.
ltAIy experience has been widely differ
ent from yours, TTessiliaR. Did I ever
tell you Of D1g father? --5...s Die. -.
4 No. I tookit for granted that he is
dead a . ...-....-
Perhaps he is. Idon't know said Low
1 der, with a reckless laugh. But if he is
living he is a scoundrel. Don't start,
Tressilian, at my unfilial speech. Wait
till you hear my story. am in. des-
perate mood tonight. As nearly as ]
can discover, my father was the young
er son of a proud old county family
you do not know, then p asked Tres
/ silian, pressing his companions hand.
4 have no proofs Of it. All positive
lIy know is this, My mother was of
/ humble station, pretty, with blue eyes
and an apPle-blOssOm face, and tender,
I appealing ways. She was the daughter
of widow, residing at Brighton. The
i widow, my grandmother, kept a lodg-
| ing-house, and my father, a gay, dash
ing young fellow, came to lodge with
I her. AS might have been expected, he
fell in love with his landlady's daugh-
ter. He offered the young girl marriage,
Lon condition that the. union should be
] kept secret until his affairs frightened
and he chose to divulge it. The young
girl loved him. Her mother was am
i bilious and penUriOus. The result was
the lover had his way, and married the
daughter of his landlady quietly, almost
secretly. Then he took his bride to
London, TO cheap and obscure lodgings,
where, a year later, 1 was born
| The wind for a moment drowned his
voice. As it presently lulled, he resuun-
/ ed pecklessly, and with passionate bitter
ness: =surr..s
For years my mother and lived in
those stuffy, obscure lodgings until her
bloom had faded, and she had grown
! thin and wan and nervous. My father
visited US at stated seasons, once or twice
q week, but he never brought any of his
family to call upon US. | doubt if his
! aristocratic relatives even suspected the
existence of the faded wife and son of
whom he was seeretely. ashamed. have
! good reason to believe that he had fine
! lodgings at the West End, where he was
supposed to be a bachelor, and that he
went into fashionable society, while my
| poor mother and lived Obseurely. He
! was a prohigate and a rOue, but he had
an air of fashion that awakened my boy
] ish admiration, and aroused my moth
/ er's afectiOnate pride in him. She was
always pleading to be introduced to his
! relatives, and to have her sons publicly
! acknowledged. But my father always
put her off, saying that he was not yet
/ ready. Worn out and despairing, my
mother died when I was ten years Old.'
Again the wind shrieked past, again
! the little vessel lurched, the sea sweep
ling her deck. | sI Ht-
r. The captain screamed his orders to his
men, and for few minutes disorder
reigned. w sG a
! Anasty bit of weather ? said Lowd-
Ter. tAnd a bad sky! sHs1r
Yes, but I've seen a bad, returned
Tressilian. we shall make port all right
never fear. We must be well on to-
ward the Cape 1di GaIlo.fa And it's only
seven miles from the Cape to Palermo.'
But the seven miles in this storm are
1 worse than seventy in good weather =
These coasts are dangerous, Tressilian. ,
Lowder shuddeIed as he surveyed sea
Il and sky.
But about your father, Jasper?' said
| Tressilian, who had became deeply in
terested in his companions story. Il
/ what did he do after your mothers
death?' Il '.' i..''.'.H'..' 't tF
Isremained at the old lodgings with
/ our single old servant a months or more,
1 my father visiting me several times, and
expressing anxiety as to what he should
4 do with me. A week after my mothers
4 death, he told me that his brother was
dead. A month later, his father was
killed by being thrown from his horse
/ NY father came into riches and honors
1 by these deaths. At last, deciding to
rid himself of me, he took me down to
Brighton, to my old grandmother. Her
4 sons were dead; she had given up keep
! ing IodgeTs, and was grown miserly.-
He promised her five hundred pounds a
4 wear to keep me, and TO keep also the
4 secret of my paternity, sOlemnly prom
ising to acknowledge me some day as
This son and heir. The old woman agreed
to carry out his wishes. She would
have done anything for money. IneveT
saw my father again. 1 went to school,
4 grew up, and at the age of twenty-one
4 came into my grandmOther's money,
4 fruits of years of saving, she dying at
that time. My father had deliberately
4 abandoned me. I did not know where
to seek him, if I had wished to. took
my money and came abroad. / had
been two years on the Continent, and
had spent my little fortune when l met
you. The rest you know