Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-22
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iI,ord save us % cried Martha.

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"And in one place twenty years." said
| Violette.
''You know more than is good,7 said
Martha. "Stop bit. Are you one of
them clairVOyants?' 20
eyes, said Violette.
could you see where people are,
| what's come of them, and thatg'' asked
been gone eight years, could you look for
her In dream like, as I've heard they
can, and find her?"
eyes, / think / could" said Violette.
''Sit here them" Martha said, pointing
TO a chair ia the hall, and hurried into
I the dining-rOOm. She came back in a
moment.
Come and speak to missus,' - she said.
sAnd NiOlette, trembling so she could
scarcely stand, catered her mothers
N6fOve Is like 3 m0tSscrS. sI0Iette
had known that since she east it on.
! She knew il now, looking on the pale
face where wrinkles had come so thickly /;
on the hair, all turned gray now; on the
sad eyes, that were so bright when she
last saw them.
/ She lOnged to kneel at her mothers
/ feet and beg forgiveness, but she dared
/ not yet--had not she sinned teo deeply
/ to hope for pardon? She stood silent,
( with her head bowed down.
'''rhey tell me you are a clairyOyant," >"
| said Mrs. LOrrimer. II have not much
/ faith in such things, and if the power
L prosDers its pOssessOrs a little 1t canPot
be worth much; but still l have some
thing l should like to ask you. You
! search for persons who are far away, do
] you not--and for lost things"
ViOlette bowed.
''If you can find something have lost
I | will repay you well, ;" said Mrs. Lori
mer. "Here, sit down. Perhaps, if you
have this knowlsdge, you can tell me
what have lost"
ViOlette sat down.
"It should be darker" she said; ''will
you lower the light?''
Martha turned the gas down and stood
( behind her lady's chair-and there was
} silence. ViOlette had east back her veil,
but the frelight was not bright enough
( TO show her features.
"Lady she said in low voice, lit Is
not gold or silver that l see; it is nothing
that can be bought for money. What /
see Is girl"
Good heavens - cried the cid lady.
- girl of sixteen, with fair hair and
blue eyes" said Violette. ''That was
what she was when you saw her last. Am
right?"
Eyes, = said Mrs. Lorrimer.
"You loved her." said Violette; ''she
loved you. But she deceived you; she
was -wicked-wicked; but there
was an excuse for her. She fell in love
she was mad for a while. You have cast
her of. She is gone. You will never
see her more"
Hush Hush!'' cried Mrs. Lorrimer.
'She was not bad. was wicked;
! knew what it was To love, yet / forsook
her because she knew it, too. Look again.
How does life use her? 20
''She is a widow, and very poor said
Violette-"sO wretchedly poor that she
does not know where TO get bread; but
she viii not come 10 you. You would
7 curse her. You could not forgive her.
! Tou win never see her again"
( Tho Old lady started from her chair.
"Nhat are yOuE" How do you know
the sccreis OF my life. the words ] most
repent uttering? Look again. Look
/ Tell me shall | see her once more. Tell
me where 10 fnd the only babe | ever
/ held against my bIT'ast! My little one
( my NiOiette-Where is She ~
+ And then the woman she addressed
fell upon her knees and ciasped her hand.
''She is here!' she cried. Mother
She Is herei" and the tive wept together
} in each others arms; and all was forgiv-
I en-.
The good mansion is no longer desc
late. There are little childTeu's voices
( there, and mother and daughter are to-
gether once more. And in that other
world, where we can not believe that
wrath endures, doubtless the lover of beT
youth rejOices that Vioiette's mothers
fortune WAS told so we'll