Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-06-24
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tage, and there put his arms abou
the slight figure of the little wash
erwoman and pressed her TO lii
heart, while she sobbcd out alouC
in the strength and weakness of hel
JOY. Duddgha, standing by in shy
bewilderment, n grave and gentle
girl of seventeen, felt the wonder.
ful charm of face when he turned
to take her, too, within his arms
and, in n cry Of gladness, ther,
broke from her the old pet namt
fer him. which had not passed he
lips since she was a child, and he
had been nsed TO carry her out up
on the cliffs and tell her wonderful
and beautiful legends of the sea.
Next morning Owen walked ur
to the grert house on the wooden
bank, to see, to repay, and once
again to thank Sir Bulllley, who
with a genial hand-stal1e, eyed him
curiously and asked him where was
the 9100.
"Here, sir" said Owen, touching
his temples slightly. "You bade
me store it here"
And Sir Bulkley, laughing heart
lily at the thought Of receiving the
money, felt that the debt had been
paid in the way he best liked.
Now fell the second cloud whose
lengthening shadow was to reach
the end. Before he left Germany
he had obtained the appointment
Of second master at the grammar
school in Vicester, one of the first,
if not the very first, in England.
And it was whispered that to win
this appointment was almost equal
to winning the head mastership,
before DR.. Hope was very anxious
to resign, and his second master,
who would necessarily perform
many of his duties temporarily,
would stand the best chance Of sue
ceeding him.
Proudly Owen told his mother
and sister this, as he pictured glo-
ryingly the easeful, restful life they
should lead with him. Then fell
the cloud, darkening at once his
loving anticipations. The mother
would not leave her cottage on the
beach.
''I'm too old q tree to bear such
moving, Owen, dear lad," said she.
at would kill me to be set in
new home now; I'd rather tarry
where your father lived no other
place would ever be the same to
me-"
"Not the home which I would
make you. mother; where you
shall do what you like all day on
ly being there to make it home for
me?"
But this pleading was of no avail,
t ugh he never wearied in it.
"Iou shall not work, then, moth
er," he said at last, feeling that he
must be content with that.
"Not work 2" she echoed, as if
the prospect were most drcory.
"Why, Owen, l should soon he tir-
ell of my lifc--a fretting, idle, old
woman. No, dear, yourmother shall
live and work just as she has been
used to ; that's the kindest for her;
and Duddgha chooses to bide with
me-"
SO Owen, all his loving dreams
faded now, took possession Of his
solitary rooms, and the pleasure
which he might have had in send
ing his frequent gifts to his mother
was destroyed by her oft-expressed
wish to have nothing more than she
had been used to through her low
ly life }; nothing more than her
boys cherished letters and her
proud knowledge of his goodness.
He lived at first busy but al-
most saddened life at Viccster, too
deeply studious to make many
friends; but at last he found in
DR.. Hopes household o sweeter
companionship than he had ever
dreamed of. A pleasant. genial
household was that of the head
master, and here Owen was always
made most welcome, liked and re-
spected for himself alone.
DR.. Hope, always cordial, was
doubly so to Owen, on whose young
strength and power he had learned
to lean in many ways. Mrs. Hope,
doubling nothing of the young
mans antecedents, because he had
been recommended by those who
stood high on the worlds ladder,
encouraged his visits and made
them pleasant to him, with that
subtle, DELEGATE tact which some
ladies possess SO prc-eminently;
and Alice, their only child, greeted
him always with her gladdest
smile, flushing brightly when she
heard his step upon the pavement
of the court, as she daily watched
for his coming.
But no one saw his eye gladen
in her presence; no one saw his
hand trcmble when it met hers for
Owen, always remembering the
cottage on the beach where his
childhood had been spent, and
where his mother and sister toiled,
kept close, firm grasp upon the
burning hope which sometimes rose
within him stronger than his
strength, and placed between him
self and Alice the shadow of his
early poverty: so much the darker