The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-04-11

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great enough without your agita-
tlon. Comfort him, if you CAM
she turned and looked Mr.. Dunlab
in the face. The look there resssur-
: ed her, perhaps stilled her, at anv
rate. It was not the look of sdmi-
ration and adulation that she knew
so well in other eyes, it was that Of
some one stronger than she, and able
to help. As she saw it, something
within her consciousness, like that
,, last stroke Of nature in the setting
! OF a crystal, added that look to the
sum OF many things-the gentle
: deeds, the constant observances. the
unoDsroslye care, the protecting
shield, the fear lest she should lose
1t all, the knowledge that il was pre-
cious; and all at once it was that
Rose Marks recognized her master
1t was only one Of the infnitessimsl
fractions oftime in which we some
times feel as if we recalled all Of an
| other life that we have lived; and
then, with a smile destroying that
shadow ofhorror and sadness on her
face, she turned back to her father
crying: "Oh, papa We must give
our lives to those who were sparedF'
THAT we willp' cried her father,
slowly, and went on with his dinner;
for his mind had been decided as to
his future conduct this hour or more
and he needed something to support
him through his resolution. It had
taken such a flash Of lightning TO
open his eyes, perhaps; but now they
were open indeed. And when dinner
was over, he waited upon Rose him
self up stairs to his own parlor.
Mr.. Dunlap stood at the foot of
the stairs when she came down aoain
little after nine. She was very
pale, and her eyes were dim, for she
had been crying; but she looked
lovelier to him than when all her
lusters and colors were about her,
for a new emotion, look of woman
liness, had been kindled on her face,
that heightened and deepened the
expression of every other feeling
there.
As she fingered on the last step
but one, Lawrence Bnrbridge came
up, and asked her to pin therosebud
on his lapel. And, as she did so,
he bent to kiss the little ingertip,
for Mr.. Dunlap. was picking up a
flower she had dropped on the floor;
but, with a quick flush, she snatched
the hanE away, though she laughed.
"Is your father in his parlor, and
may 1 go up to see him? whispered
Lawrence.
'Of course you may" said Rose.
%When 1 come down" said he, in
the same tone, perhaps / shall have
the right to take what"
But Rose sprang lightly past him
down the step. She knew what he
meant, and she was no coquette; but
she was not unwilling that gold or
pinehbeck should be tested.
So Lawrence knocked at Mr..
Marks door and was hidden to en-
ter.
@Mr. Marks" said be, after some
brief formality, aI have sought this
interview with a purpose; and I do
not know how to do anything but to
proceed at once to the point. You
cannot but have noticed my admira-
ton for your daughter" And he
paused, little embarrassed, it may
be.
81 have noGieed it sir" said the
father, looking up from the papers
spread upon the table before him.
And my desire to make her my
Wife," resumed Lawrence, coming to
the point indeed. "But I have
thought it consonant with my ideas
of propriety and the usages Of my
family not to address her until I had
spoken with yourself
Il am glad ofthat sir," said Mr..
Marks. "For when you have heard
what I have got to say, you may pos
sibly prefer a different course"
"Indeed~
yesterday, sir, my daughter was
the heiress of an immense fortune
a fortune in gaining which / have
strained every nerve and spent two
thirds Of my life. Tonight she has
agreed to surrender the whole Of it,
and to be deprived of everything but
an annuity-suficient, indeed, for
comfort, but fsr from wealth. The
luxuries she now enjoys-horses,
liveries, splendid dress and jewels
and opera-stalls-she viii have from
her husband or not at all; for the
great body of this wealth which /
have accumulated for her is now 10
go toward making restitution to the
poor of the city Cor the wrong which
her father has done them. II has
been sweated opt-of them, as gold
is sReated out of coin; it is to be re
stored to them so far as it is posi-
BILE. Tenement-hOuses are to be
built which shall heal where others
have hurt; streets are to be purified,
hospital beds endowed, foundlings
are to be cared for, and a score Of
such atonements made to the eV
generation for the suffering Of the
last-suffering that the gatheringto-
gether of this money has caused
them, and which it needed some
miracle, some blaze Of q burning
tenement-house and many victims in
it, to let me recognize. But, please
God sir, my life will be given to undo
what have done; and my daughter
stands by me-" s
aMr. Marks" said Lawrence then,
81 can hardly believe that / under
stand-that 1 hear you rightly"
"You understand me perfectly"
"And this decision of yours is ir-
revocableT"
"IrreYocabIep
81 can not tell you how this aston
ishes me- -astonishes and pains me-
l am not regardless of your daugh-
ter, believe me. 1 am attached to
her. / AMI am in love with herl
/ should not have married her for
her money, but l could not marry
her without money. What you say
i'm fact, my-my income as
cavalry officer, and man whose