The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-01-13


years had she in her heart denied the
One that now she called upon thus earn
astly but with that anguishel cry, re-
turned the faith which alone can sup
port earth's pilgrims through their sor-
rows.
She knew her boys werc that night
pillowod,o1 q colder pillow thm they
had ever proven. She knew that the
arm Of the pitilcss waters had lullad
them to their sleep; yet they who stood
around heard no murmur!nW from her
lips, rs minute after minute she bent
over her daughters ~ifeleas form. They
heard only the 4 prayer that burst
from her oyercharcod heart, "Ciod for
give me, and in His mercy return me
this Il child" The prayer vasanswer-
ed. Breath came to the sculp,urcd nos
tril, and light 10 the eve so nearly glaz-
ed;ana dropping on her knees the moth
or wept such teara rs a soiteued heart
alone can know.
Days passed before the bodies Of Har-
old and Herbert were rescued from the
waters and Ibid beside the father, beneath
the frozen sod Of tie ohurchyard, Oh
il was a sad burial bat so earnestly
spoke the silver-hGircd pastor, Of the
Joys Of heaven, OF the sorrows and trou-
lies OF earth, hat the weeping mother
bowed her head, and said in her heart,
at is wen with my children" For q
long time, Helen was very feeble; but as
spring came on, Mira Douglass marked
tho glow upon her cheeks, and horaldcd
it with Thanksgiving, Ns the first dawn
Of returning health. There were others
who saw in that deep hectic flush, a ra-
dance asst from the doath-angcls wing.
But Maurice Graham was not one OF
these. Day after day he sat by Helen's
side, until his deep love woke IN answer
in the fair young girls heart. One
bright morning he'sought Nus, Douglass
in her garden to tell hor CT his lore for
Helen, and tourgo her consent to a spec
dy union. She listened in surprise.
Maurice was scarce twenty, Helen but
seventeen, and she had not thought Of
them as other children, OF Maurice rs a
brave and daring boy, who had saved
her child from death, OF Helen as Il Erail
Young girl, who repaid with a sisters af-
lection, the gratitude her deliyerer de-
served. Now as this came from her, the
quick pain in her side, which OF late she
had So often felt, caused her to pressher
hands tightly above it, while from her
wan and parted lips there came neither
word of consent or denial.
At length, grasping Mauricc's hand firmly,
she drew him to the house. Helen was sitting
in the window seat, her thoughtful eyes raised
TO the heavens, but over them and over her
transparent brow, and on her golden hair, lciyi-
Is the shadow Of the enc branch oil the blasted
Elm.
CIose by her side, the mother sat, ret lining
sttll the ham Of Maurice, md clhsIirg l|lclgn'a
tull a. clOsc, anil there she told them the one
,carrul secret Of her life, which bad 80 tempted
hrr 70 dem IN oyerruIins Providence, a loving
and mcrciiul God.
\ lew words will suffice for ne to rcrcat it.
Tier hutbaul had Teen arrested for the murder
# & man 10 wlom he was c~tlsi,el n j. INDEBTED.
The circumstan;iul evidence hal been found NJ
LrSi 50 Btron', that he Was hopeless otheinT able
10 establish Ills innocence; ana lie required her
20 take hts Young chillIeA to Il dist hi town,
where in case his worst fears shoult be realized
they could be educated in ignorance OF their lutL-
ers fate. Even rs lie he'd feared, he WA pr
uouucsd guilty, and sen,,02,I 20 be lLJs. lie
faithful ire Nsstlnrd to bin wEentJ4, .sr,a,-
Cd the tidinGst and rv]naiueu near him, seeing
him dairy uutI.1ui was over. la here, Co ,,pu.,
was he p]liitleas, 80 convincing had brta ,ig
evidence. She iul.ilcI his wishes. she SAIL
to Maurice, 'tUuld sou marry .hr laugs .ttoi an
alleged murderer ot0ue who died by t.n hl.i
o. a common !]tu@rasH - lis answered not. &c
was ola ?. oad fumil he bore 80 old nnl IN
b,CiuifhGt name, uu lie hvsi;atei while Mrs.
Dyugitts's last words rang IN hi. car. A. tut
instant, a !resh breeze swept from OH .Ae Lake
past the cottage; 1t increased momCntarlly in
violence. The oil elm ratified and v~rgelti, hey
vi shUddcrcGi i moment more and the dec yCI
trunk lay PROSTATE Ou the gr, uui. The ,.ai-
DIV was now gone from Helene ace, and Ilr sun
Light lay tLcrc ia unbr' ken sElcndor. 10 Mau-
rice Graham il seemed in its serene Lcauty, as
tle face orun Angel. AZ he mlrhed the clo-ing
eyelids, The Strange laIor that chased thp lose
hue froln the clleeks-his heart beat quickly.
~"..elen' NY Yiuleu | do claim YOU YOU shall
fAiaN ~ lHAh' VIM HN 'VAN ~ nv ibllIlN . liz
had lingered too lyns-thc lips h, hld stopped
% kiss were lips or clay. The horror oi his ex-
ptesaiOn Il, Tie recital Of the fearful tale, the
hesitation Which his alter silence showed had
not been unnntiCcd by HtlCn's watcIiui eye;
aud the Shock hastcned tue death. which could
Mt been many more days delayed, such fatal
iurolds had that insilious disease, conounpi on
made in her fragile frame. Another funeral
train wound oui nom Ivy Cottage, and lle,cn's
name WAS ADDED to tie stone tuut market hen
brothers' grave. All tlirough the remainder OF
the sW5et spring and bios ON g summer, Mr..
Dougla.s wandered daily to the beautiful ent!o-
sure where the mortal part Vi tuusc she la 70
ioudly loved Wsi Wondering back to the aust Of
Whi,E ,hey we're created. When autumn came
her short quick cough, and feeble huitrring pulse
kept her nom the house OF God, as well as nom
her daily walk. The paetOr m,osed her from
her seat, ana OWNED the cause; Tor he had no
tiret OF late the came hectic glow upon her cheek
which .t:cr that night OF exposure, had 50 surely
forctold TO him the daughters death.
Death soon claimed tie Sorrly stricken wife
ana mother. During The last lew days of her
Illness she learned that her husbands innocence
had been declared TO the world, ana then she
confined her sad secret to the sympdthizing pas
tor. 1t was the subject of the good old mans
funeral discourse, aud his deep voice was hotroe
NlI TemuIO'is, anu MS uIh eyes were ulHlhcf
still with tears, Ms he read from the book Vi
Job tie text he had chosen.
"BehoI ] 90 forward, bat he is not there; and
backward, but cannot perceive him:
"OE the lett HAND where he doth work, but
cannot behold him; lie hideth himself on the
right hOud, that ] cannot see him.
"But he knoweth tue way that | take when he
hath tried me, | shall come forth Us gold.'
Eloquently he told them, how, ~ gold seven
times purified, was the spirit that hard tied rom
the mortal tenement before them, Low, in the
iays OF her fret desolaiion, the Losd Lal sulIcr-
ed thick darkness to tall upon her, so that she
had not seen that it was Ills hand that had given
ner the bitter cup to drink; how, ior long years
she had journey ct on in pilgrimage in gloom and
dessolation o, heart, until at length lie had Uoae
again in srievous Christening, but the clouds had
| gone, the thick darkness bad been removed, and