The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-02-05

years, and had lived from childhood
/ in constant intimacy, but | had
never doubted that she knew nv love 1t
seemed so perfectly natural, SO much my
whole life, that thought Il always evident
above all things 10 my actions and on my
| lips. It was therefore terrible blow to
me whsa returned from my last term in
college, flushed with no few honors, ex-
pecting their congratulations first Of all, to
learn that Lily vas absent from tae rec
DRY and might never return. Such a
possibility had never before thought Of
nor had aoy Of them. Her father had SC
! long permitted her to remain in her uncle
family that she hal become as much part
oft as Clare herself, and it was like tax
ing away his daughter from tie rector
and her sister from Glare when Mr.. Raw
made his appearance and said that Lily
must 20 with him to be mistress Of his
house in the city. Ia vain she strove, pro-
tested, begged. In vain the rector and Clare
/ impl0red aud demanded. lie was stern,
cold man, and he came and wen., and with
him vanished one of the lights of the rec.
tory, and when | came home it was the
saddest welcome Of a stricken house. For
some days after that Clare and / talked
and planned what we would do. We
would 20 and storm the city h1use of Mr..
Ray. Wa would coax Lily to slope with
US. We would steal her back and keen
her concealed. We would do a hundred
things that at length resolved themselves
into going together with the rector to the
city to see her, and 20 we all went.
she was not at home" SO said the
servant again, and again, and again, as we
repeated our calls at the door We left our
cards and the name of the hotel, but she
did not como. We called in the evening
and received the same answer. Philip, We
were green and simple people, and did not
Know that this phrase had other meaning
than the words expressed.
But the next day | met her in the
street, and she sprang toward me, and then
shaddered and looked around her as if she
fearel that some one SAW her.
Oh, Stephen, Where-whers a,s the,
alp
At the - hotel
Here in New York;
cot course. Did you not receive our
cards?'
Your cards?
I've called four times Yesterday
Stephen, | an pris9uer-my father
is and Lere she burst into tears ever
in the broad street Of the city.
at all came out soon. Her father was
seounlrcl who had been glad to be rid of
the care Of Ler for the years of her child
hood, but when lie found that she was {
beautiful woman had thought it worth hi,
while 70 take her to the city to be mistres.
of bis house, and greater attraction tt
call those into his society whom he desired
to entrap and fleece.
''But she was too pure for his purpose
and he found that there was no hone Of
making her useful unless he could reducr
her moral character nearer to his own level
will not believe, never did believe, thai
he designed to wrong her, or that he wouIl
have consented to debase her to the lcve
Of those women who sometimes formed par
OF the evening company 10 his house. IL
had some sense of shame, some reverence
for the holiness or her mother lett. III,
Idea was not to destroy. but only to su1ly
the purity of her chan acter-not to make
her bad. but only to make her look with.
out shuider on sin But to accomplish
this he must detach her from her former
associates and friendships, an, above all
from the old rectory. So he threw every
obstacle in the way of the reunion of those
bonds which he had 50 rudely sundered. It
happened somewhat curiously that on the
same day that had met Lily in the street
| met an old servant of my father, man
who had lived with US from childhood and
who was discharged with legacy from my
father on his death. | had no knowledge
Of his whereabouts, but now learned that
he was in the employment of Mr.. Ray.
Having been engaged but few weeks pre-
vlously, he had just begun to find out the
character of his employer, and WAS about
to discharge his master, when | begged
him to serve me by remaining little Ion
ger. had a plan in nav BRAIN for the res
cue of the fair girl, which | had matured
in the half hour since | met her in the
street. but which the meeting with David
seemed to make perfectly feasible.
81 need not pause to relate to you how
the rector sought and obtained an inter
view with his unworthy brother-in-law or
how he failed. We were not a sad party
we were to indignant for that-when We
returned to the country. All our passions
were aroused, and when We reached home
we had an excited conversation, in the
midst of which, with characteristic i'm.
petuositv, revealed my plan.
1--WE were seated in Che old house in the
chief room; the room that had been for
many years the scene of our happiest
hours. Where the golden sunshine all day
leng found its way to the carpet through
the branches of vines that overhuug the
windows, in showers of soft and gladden.
ing light; where the cheerful hearthblaze
all the evening made candles useless, while
we sat and talked, or sang, or, as have
said before, dreamed: for We dreamed
much, all of us--we were all dreamers.
remember well that Clare stood near the
west window, into which the last twilight
rays were streaming. She had Just finished
some furious sentence about her uncle, and
her eyes were flashing with indignation.
Mr.. Milbank was seated in his old chair in
the corner, listening with a smile, that |
could see through the gloom, to the ear
n.stness of his beautiful child, and | was
walking swiftly up AID down.
"'Sir, will you help me to marry herr
''Clare sprang with bound to the mid
die of tie room and locked at me. The
rector rose from his seat and took my hand