The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-27

1 and your wise AID good sd vice i hope is has
not ali been lost upon me- hope you viii
! Sometimes le9 re know What yo1 Ase interest
/ ed in, and bow Jon are prospecting
Good By, and believe NE yoor true fr7epd.
NABGAKEI LEsIER-
! Onee more, do not regret Anything
Poor DR.. James, BE read tie last word, and
sat like 1nAa IN . dream, staring .. the letter
before him. Suddenly he started mp, seized
his hat from its peg. put il On, and rushed 10
the door then came back, threw his has away
from him and SAT down again, burying his
face in his hands Fool, fool that be had
been, What had be thrown awayf Was there
ever . WOMAN like THAI What would il not
be for him, for Any rAn, 10 go through life
with soch . coDpAuion who would never bold
him back from what Was right; who would
not fear TO meet anything for the sake of truth
and jnsTisef What woman il q hundred would
have done this kooring. too, that her love
uas not retained. Aad how did she know it Z
Oh. bow much more cleaT-sighted she had
been than be, With al his wisdom and expert
eoee. If he had lot shut his eyes, if be could
have lad the least suspicion OF this, what .
difference il might rot have made Then be
resolved 10 seek her, 10 go through fire and
water, II need be, if be could only find her,
aDd brig her back, and never let her leave
him again.
Al that moment the words he had written
TO her came before him, and threw him again
into despair. 30: all was lost, He had in
suited her, eanselessly and needlessly; he had
said that he valued her money more than her
self, Her money, Would she had not cent
wou,d abe were dependent and friendless tha;
he might work for hex, share with her all that
he had, and win name and fame for her.
When Mrs Day, his ho1sekeeper, put her
head into his room, e1claiming that the break
fAst-beu bad ruDg half an hour ago, be follow
ed hex 20 the diaing-room and sw alloved his
cold coffee without = word, with q meekness
that touched the heart of his Gorgon. She
proposed boiling him an egg. or cutting few
shavings of ham bat the Doctor declined her
attentions Ito her great relief) and hurried to
to the stable for Rosanna. He drove twenty
nilee sway to his moet distant patient, whom
he alarmed by his gloomy face and abrup,
manner; he drove Rosanoa back to Sealing at
rate she was unaoeustomed to, and walking
up the Ssreet-it YVES then late in the afternoon
Tommy NeSally, roaring At the
top of his voice, and rubbing his eyes as if he
wished to leave in them 10 powers of vision
DR.. James stopped and asked, rather Grossly,
what allied him.
20 doctor she's gone away, and she's given
me this, !" holding up dollar bin and eonrinu-
ing TO cry, 'and one for each of US; and she's
gone away, and we won't see her any more"
do you mean Miss Lester r
Yes, Doctor said Tommy, beginning to
dry bis eyes i've been to the citation and
seen her go of; and she told me to be good
boy aud help mother"
" Mind !ou do H. said the Doctor, hurrying
away and home to his cold dinner. That eve
ming he called on Father Barry, and beard that
Margaret had been there on her way to the
cars, aud had left directions for all Ler pro:eqss
especially The McNallys. Father Barry seemed
Ike objected sbou, Ter departure, aud much
surprised az il; bu, the Doctor, OF course,
chose 20 throw DO light On the subject.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE HEAETBREAK OF TOMORROW"
A Jew days after, as soon as DE-. James coald
make up his mind to do SO, he called on Miss
SPelman, and found the house quite as forlorn
as be lad expected, aud his old friend very
glad TO receive sympathy. She said she had
heard from her niece that very day
" Ii vas an amusing, afectionate letter.
said Miss Selma, Just like her. Poor child
she will be easy now she Is with her friend.
She was very much changed, Doctor"
What do you mean ?"
Why, she had grown so quie, and 50 strange
that is, she seemed 10 me strange she would
sit Sd long without speaking a word and then
she was much more adectionate-I mean more
oemonstra'ive than when she first came; but
che seemed to have lost her good spirits."
thought STE seemed much as usual when
ever l saw her"
Yes, she was gayer til Al ever When any one
"as here bot that was only put OF. Poor
child; she felt J=ssie's marriage, and that she
vas 50 soon to be separated from tie friend Of
her childhood
Niss Spelman seemed TO think tn D octor
needed oonso!atiou, and from lits!e r.u.arks
and insiDuacio-s, he imagined that che coas;d-
cred him suffering from disap pointuaeut; be
did lot try to undeeeive her, for was it not
truei