The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-30

GU are certainly excusable, SAID
Latta. Then, looking at him attentively,
she added: Excused, provided you prom
Use never to cross my pathway again.
Your face pains me- Good evening, sir.
"St'y, miss-just one moment" cried
the intruder, as she called Fido to her
side, and turned to leave the churchyard.
She paused, and the stranger continued:
"Tell me your name, and the relationship
that existed between you and the lady at
whose grave you knelt."
"Why, what is that to you? And, least
Of all, why do you wish nv name? which
| refuse to give!" replied Latta.
at is not through mere idle curiosity
that ask. l implore you to tell mel"
Seeing that he was so earnest, she re-
Taxed, and with trembling voice respond
ed: "She was my mother. Our names
are the same"
Zone more question. Why does my
face pain you?"
IL answer, because you so closely re-
semble that unrelenting enemy of my poor
mother, and the heartless destroyer of her
happiness-my father"
"Would it pain you more to know that
the person who stands before you is none
other than your tather?"
mo more" said she, in a deliberate
tone. "But why come you here? Is it to
receive the dying message of my mother,
that you were forgiven, and that her last
prayer was that God, too, would forgive
you?"
Mr. Green seemed deeply affected. He
seated himself on a stone, and burying
his face in his hands, shivered as one in
an ague. At length, gaining more control
of himself, he looked at Latta, and said:
81 came not to hear your mothers dying
message, but to receive my forgiveness
from her own lips. came too late, for
she is dead; and her daughter, too justly,
stands ready to condemn me-"
"Yes, do condemn you, and severely,
too. You, who wooed and won my moth
er, filled her life with cares, and then, af-
ter robbing her Of all means Of support,
cruelty abandoned her to the cold chari-
ties of the world, with me then but mere
babel" exclaimed Latta.
81 cannot blame you for the censure
you heap upon me. But, come and listen
to the story of my wreck, and then try
and look with plying eyes upon your
wretched father"
Latta seated herself near him, and
motioned for him to proceed.
He went on to speak of his youth, hav-
ing been SO unfortunate as to lose his par
ents at an early age, and he was left, &
mere child, to fight the battle Of life un.
aided and alone. Dame fortune favored
him with an education. He read, and
afterwards began the practice of, law. He
He met and married an only and idolized
child of wealthy parents, through who's,
influence he became quite popular at the
bar Truly did he love his young wife
during the first year of his welded life
At the expiration of that time he was oh,
lged to visit distant city on business
when he met and became very much in,
fatuated with a lady, who afterward.
visited the city of his residence. Imme,
diately that he heard of her arrival Ia,
called upon her, and many other clandes
tine meetings followed.
He neglected wife, business, every
thing, to pass the hours with the en-
chantress. So entirely did he surrender
himself to her that her image foated evel
before his waking vision, and her shap,
haunted his SAUNDERS at night How b,
sighed for freedom, that he might throw
himself at her feet and implore the re
turn of the passionate beatings of hi
heart And not in vain was the wish
for his wife's parents died. leaving thei
immense fortune at his control.
Mr.. Green dwelt long and painfully OF
this point of his villainous conduct, an,
gladly would he have erased every though
OF it from his memory. He deserted IT,
wife of his bosom and Glove unto one VIII
cared not for him, but only for the wealtl
he possessed.
After procuring the divorce from hi
wife, he was married to the lady who ha
allured him to such villainy. They i'm
mediately sailed for Europe, where the
spent their time until Earnest Green
wealth was expended. Then the woma
for whom he had forsaken all prove
treacherous, and in turn she deserted hin
for another as he had deserted his wife 70
: her.
He returned to America. He dare
not approach the wife he had so deepl
wronged, and sue for forgiveness. S
fearfully had he outraged her good nam
and lacerated her too-trusting heart, ths
: he was conscious that it would require
lifetime Of repentance to heal the wounds
He wandered about the land for year,
becoming almost a veritable vagabonc
One evening, as he sat in the deepenin
> autumnal twilight, his thoughts reverte
to the woful past. The forms aud faces {
his wife and child uprose before him, an
he lonped 10 gaze once more upon then