The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-07-16

lOT tud has no spot upon thee.
He- weeping shook even Pnillis Dens
ham, though it was neither loud nor long
It did not even awaken the child though
it seemed as if the struggle tore her very
soul. But suddenly she got up, and
taking the little one from its pillow. kiss :
ed it once, twice, and placed it in the
arms ct Phillis.
"Tak' it away, she said, breathlessly.
q am ma of thy blood Gamma keep up
long. For Gods sake tax her out of my
slgth before a. the strengths wrung cut o
me. gi her up, I tell thee--l gl--her up
foriver.
And stricken dumb By the sight Of the
agony in the mothers face, almost hefore
she could realize that her strange request
had indeed been granted, she found her
self out in the night holding the child in
her arms
i &
1t was not many days before the women
at the Mills were gosslping among them
selves concerning what they knew of the
story of Janet Ayres' child. Phillis Dem
ham had taken it to "fetch up, as they
put it, though how she had gained pos
session Of it was mystery. The two
women came as usual. but there was no
intercourse between them; each going her
separate way when work was over, Janet
to her desolate house, Phillis to her cottage
and the child, who was cared for in her
absence by woman whom she had taken
into her house for the purpose Since
the night Philiis carried the child away
in her arms, Janet had persis:ently avoid
ed her Evidently she had not meant to
do the thing by halves when she said she
gave the child up forever. As to the
little one her3elf. she had soon become
accustomed to her new surroundings,
though the novelty disturbed her at first
With Phills she made friends in way
of her own-strangely enough. without a
touch of baby sfusiveness. They were
the best of friends, but nothing nearer.
Perhaps Phillis way was not exactly the
way TO win baby's heart perhaps she
was too calm and quiet, or perhaps some
more subtle influence held her apart from
this tiny creature;but, however that might
be, she often felt novel pang that she
was held apart. At first she felt it but
slightly, but as time went on, and the
child crept into her inner heart, tie feel
Ing became stronger. How could the
child fail to creep into her heart She
was woman after all, and her slghted
love for handsome Will Henders had been
very strong one. She had given up all
for him; The frienship of her people, the
affection Of her frien ls--all she had pos
sorrow of her life as a just punishment for
her OBJECTIONS, but though she bad cut
herself off from this man whom she had
never forgotten him for an hour-hls
physical beauty, his dashing ways. 50 un-
like the ways of the grave young friends
who had admired her, the shade or poetic
romance in his admiration for her pure,
high, selr-contained style of beauty--she
never forgot one attraction. And as this
little creature played about the room in
her quaint fashion, she fell into the habit
of watching her with curious feeling
Almost yearning. Nay, more than once
it was feeling so strong it half angered
her. The summer blue eyes Knocked her
with their haunting likeness to other eyes
as warmly blue; lifting themselves to her
quiet face, they stung her to the heart.
They made her restless, less calm. less
coldly content with her hard, unloved, Jun
loving lot. She found old warnings she
had thought subdued coming back to her,
conquered pains, )ong~struggled against
memories, and it ma7 be that her secret
suffering softened her. a-
Before the child had been with Phillis
lone, Janet Ayres was missing She was
absent from her loom one morning, and
she had shut up her house and gone away.
That was all that was known by outsiders,
but Phillis knew little more. The night
before the womans disappearance there
had come light tap at her window, and,
going outside to see what the summons
meant she had Foflnd Janet A yrao stand |