The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
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OUT OF THE STREETS.
Although she was young and pretty.
and very rich and fashionable, Mrs.
Renwicke had good, kind heart. and
strove to fll her placa In life with mod
esty and fidelity.
When she married MIR. Renwicke. the
wealthy widower, twelve years ago.
there were plenty of ill-natured re-
marks by plenty, of ill-naEured people
&nd when Amy Renwicke presently ran
sway from her fathers house and mar
ned man of whom all her friends dis
approved, there was no lack of censo-
nous tongues to say that Mrs. Renwicke
was at the bottom of it, and was doubt
Aess glad enough to be lid of q hand
some grown-up step-daughter. That
MIR. Renwicke was too much taken up
with his new wife to remember the old
Wlfe's daughter. all the world declared
for he had banished her from his heart
forever, and would not hear her name
mentioned by his most intimate friends.
But no one knew or indeed would have
believed, how Mrs. Renwicke grieved
over her daughters fight, and un-
Justly blamed herself as having been
the possible cause. Sne sought in vain
10 soften the stern fathers heart toward
abe saw that even her entreaties and
tears failed to move him, she gave up,
knowing well that all other means were
hopeless.
From time to time she heard of her
step daughter, and from her ample
allowance sha was always ready to give
generously but the girl was stubborn
and proud like her father, and it was
difficult at times TO assist her in such
-, L.
MIR. Renwicke took his wife abroad with
him, and in the period of their absence
it was impossible for Mrs. Renwicke to
keep trace of Amy, whose silly pride
prevented her from responding to her
= step mothers kindness in the same
spirit in which it was offered.
a Mrs. Renwicke, returning with her
husband to New York, after an alb
sence of two years in Europe, learned
that Amy and her worthless husband
were both dead, having fallen the VIC
winter after their runaway marriage.
:, Mrs. Renwicke broke the news to her
husband, but she could scarcely tell how
Is Affected him, for he heard her with
GOODNESS and silence.
Amy Walters had left one chiid-a
~gfHl-h$tle more than an infant; and
Mrs. Renwicke, who would gladly have
adopted and reared it as her own, could
gain no trace of it. Mrs. Renwicke
had no children, and the desire to dis
cover and adopt the dead Amy's child
was becoming mania with her. Mr..
+. eRanwicke began to feel alarm about his
Young wife; for she was as good as she
was lovely, and his passion for her was
quite justified by her merits. He beg
ged her to tell him what it was that
troubled her; and, although she feared
,Eto tel him all, Mrs. Renwicke confessed
q part of her grief.
"You know, my dear husband, she
said, little tremulously, and blushing
very much, show love children and
: saxace heaven has not given us any,
shave been thinking that perhaps it is
because there are. so many in the world
.zwho. have no homes and no mothers.
If ..every rich and childless woman
were to adopt one of the poor little
q waits with which our streets are filed,
how much misery and crime might be
prevented, and how much happiness
might be conferred on those who never
knew it before"
This was quite long speech for Mrs.
.Renwicke, and it was made with con-
siderable haste, too, and somewhat as
If she expected to be interrupted be-
fore reaching the end. But she need
not have feared. Mr.. Renwicke heard
her ia silence, and he would have kept
silence much longer if she had contin-
>ued speaking. And when his eyes met
hers, his look softened, and he smiled
gently on her, for she really looked
like . woman who eught to have chill.
dren to care for-so fair, SO sweet such
o plying, loving, sympathetic face, nc
child could look upon it except with
love and confidence.
:sApd SO you want to adopt a child
my pet? Bless your tender little heart
ADOPT n dozen, If you like; have 9
special private founding hospital o.
.yosar, own. only don't worry me aboui
fhem.r beyond drawing on me for al
much money as you please. To that
extent I give you carte blanche.
People called MIR. Renwicke 9 stern
hard MANS indeed he was; but hi'
wife heard such comments regarding
him with unfeigned surprise for never
except in the matter of his daughtert
marriage had she known him to bt
anything but kind and gentle. Iht
Permission which he so lavishly accord
ed her gave her genuine delight, and
finRinR her snowy arms about hls neck,
she thanked him again and again. And
the worldly man of business, who.
away from her, never thought of any
thing but dollars, felt himself sufi-
ciently repaid by her embrace.
Il was now five years since Amy Wal
ters died, and Mrs. Reuwicke judged
that the child she was in guest Of musl
be about six, years old. She was not
Quite conscious of it, but she always
sought for children of that age, and
always for girls, having quite made uE
her mind to adopt some child, although
ahe feared that her search for Amy's
child would never be successful. Many
were the little wanderers whom she
clothed and fed, and for whom she pro-
'vid9d comfortable homes. A rich
woman, with money enough and the
wxl TO. do it, can open many doors TO
the homeless and friendless, and Mrs.
.RenWicke's means and VIII were equally
good. More than once she had almost
decided on the adoption Of some little
girl but her heart cried out for the
nne she was IN quest of, and bade her
MgaE Yet q little longer. So she found
projectors for the little ones she was
interested In. and waited, hoping
against hope for the one that fate