The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-01-20

! tnnt 1 love Detter tnan anything on |
the face Of the earth; and want you
TO remember this, whether You over
see mo again or not. But it won't
do W give way now. Father has
turned me out of his house once and
forever"
And here his face settled back in.
to its oil siernness once moo
The little girl stood and shiyered-
"Oh, Edward"
Then her sweet face suddenly |
flashed up through it's tears to him.
II will go straight to papa and
beg him TO take you back, and she
would have sprung away from her
brother, but he held her LAX forc'
IDLY.
"Novor. Mary, never will lool,
upon his face again. IL is useless to
iuterccdc now. He has turned me.
like dog from his threshold, aud
cross il now for tho last time.
That stern fnce, aud the clonchcd
hand he brought down Oh the door
knob, froze the tears ON the child :
face.
Then tho young man turned to
ward her. aud the fierce light went
out Of his eyes
"AIary. little sistcr, good bye. DO
not forget me, and pray for me every
might.
He broke down here, and kissing
her forehead thrcc or four times, he
dar,cd out of tho house.
Bat, papa, you haven't sent him
away forever, and he will como bacl,
some time :
! And she pressed up her soft, wet
lchccSs to tho old mans and her
small fingers ilutterod amongst his
gray spr,nhlcd hair like Il locl, OF
newly hcdgcd birds.
"Mary, you must never speak to
mo Of him again. Edward has Of
fcnded me past forSiyncss, and he is
no longer son Of mine on Il brother
of yours. have disowncd him. And
: now, remember, must he oboycd
The old man held her, his fair,
young child, in his lap, rs he uttered
l the cruel words, his face still rigid
and his brow knotted with blue
veins but his hand rested tenderly
} on her bright hair, for Mary Rcy-
nolds was her fathers idol.
There was no sound in the great
) library but tho broken sUbs of the
little girl.
Come. daughter, don't" 1t was
e wonderful how those stern tones fell
e into II sweetness that was like n mo.
9 thcr's. Papa will be very kind
\ TO his little girl and make her veiy
i happy, and she must not trouble
II him by grieving 80.
u At last the child lifted her head,
and her glance fell upon the portrait
. of Indy opposite, set in richly
h carved franc.
The face, was still young, and the
. sweetness Of the azure eyes, the Hut
= tering smile about tho lips, aud the
Il soft delicocy Of the whole face,
II would have won your heart to it at
II once.
n Papa, | nm 80 glad now that she
e died before | can remember her
d My child, what do you mean
S with tones full of embarrassment
5 "Because, papa, it would have
Il broken her heart"
s The old man sot down his child,
1t and she went out OF tho library. His
e stern lips did not quiver. nor his
$ iron will falter in its purpose, but
there roso up before him fair pic
e ture Of that young face, above which
grass had been growing for eleven
: years, as it bent with proud, mother
. Tenderness over little brown, curly
!, head, which she was lifting up for
: its fathers kiss. And tho baby
] stretched out his hands, aud crowcd
4 triumphantly, MS its fingers clutchod
the mans hair aud this baby was
I his first born child, aud he had turn
ed him forever from his doors. Ma
I, ry had spoken the truth. IL was
: well that her mothor was dead, for
0 it would have broken her heart.
William Reynolds, tho banker,
! was stern, resoluto man, honorable
!, in his dealings with oil men, but
sympathetic, pitiful to none He
had married late in life woman
much younger than himself, one who
combined raro graces Of heart and
mind and who had opened all the
hidden springs OF tenderness in his
cold, undemonstrative nature. Their
son had inherited the warm impulses
3 Of his mother with the intlexiblo will
/, of his father, and after the death of
the former, gradual estrangement
developed itself between the two,
: and the gentle, healing element OF
the mother was not there to recon-
= cile those she loved. Matters grew
worse and worse, until after having
graduated from college, the young
y man fatty refused TO crafty his fa,
theirs darling ambition of succeed
' ing him in business, he having chos-
! en- the law for his profession.
A long and severe alteration en-
!, sued between father and son. Harsh
. fiery words passed between them,
, for both were equally determined
, and angry, aud the whole ended in
the rich banker turning his son for
! over from his threshold.