The Morning herald., 1876-08-26

enings. At last forcibly shut the doc
upon him, and bolted him out. Whethe
this indignity was too much Tor the valor.
ous soldier, or whether he felt sure that al
chance was over, I know moi; but when
looked out ten minutes after, the coast wa
clear. l took my erring, wronged, We
still more wronged than erring, child int.
my bosom, and thanked Heaven that sh'
was saved. The next morning Mr.. Suth-
erland arrived.
| After this nights events I have little te
say, or else had rather say but little, o.
what passed during the remainder of thai
summer. We all travelled to England
together, going around by Yorkshire to
leave Mr.. LIE Peers daughters at their
own home. This was Mr.. Sutherland'a
plan, In order that the two girls should be
kept in ignorance Of the whole affairs, and
especially oftheir fathers il-deeds. What
they suspected I know not they were
merely told that it was the desire of Zillalis
guardian to take her and her governess
home with him. So we parted at Halifax,
and never saw any Of the family again.
had no scruples about thus quitting them,
as found out from Mr.. Suthel land that !
had been engaged solely as governess to
his ward, and that he had himself paid my
salary in advance, the whole Of which, in
some way or otherhad been intercepted BY
Mr.. LIE Poer. The money of course was
gone; but he had written to me with each
remittance, and thus I had lost his letters.
That was hard also found out with greal
joy and comfort, that my Zillah was truly
Zillah LIE Poer--he fathers legitimate
heiress. All that l had been led to believe
was cruel and wicked lie. The whole
history Of her father and mother was one
Of fthose family tragedies, ,only too frequent,
which, the actors in them being dead, are
t*@s >orgotten. I shall not revive the
tale.
In late autumn Mr.. Sutherland sailed
for India. Before he quilted England he
made ME sole guardian in his stead
over Zillah lie Poer, assigning for her a
handsome maintenance. He said he hoped
we should all live happily together-she
my mother, and I--until he came back
He spent short time with us all at hi
country -seat-a time which, looking bacl
upon it, seems in its eighty days like sep.
arate years. HsF
l ought to speak of Zillah, the unmoved
centre Of so many convolving fates. She
remained still and silent as ever-dull,
grieved, humiliated. l told her gradually
and gently the whole truth, and explainet
from how much she had been saved. She
seemed grateful and penitent her hear
had never been touched by love; she was
yet mere child. The only evidence Of
womanly shame she gave was in keeping
entirely out of her guardians way nor
did he take much notice of her except In
reproaching himself to me with being
neglectful of his charge but he had 30
thoroughly trusted in the girls uncle as
being her best protector. The only remark
he ever made on Zillah's personal self was
that she had beautiful eyes, adding, with a
half-sigh, "that he liked dark, Oriental
eyes," One day his mother told me some
thing which explained this. She said he
had been engaged to a young lady in Imlia
who on the eve of their marriage had died.
He had never cared much for women's
society since, and his mother thought would
probably never marry. After his depar-
ture she told me the whole story. My
heart bled over every pang that it had suf-
fered; he was SO good and noble man
And when l knew about this indifference
to all women, l felt the more gratefully
what trust he showed in me by making
Inc Zillah's guardian in his absence, and
wishing me to write TO him regularly Of
her welfare. The last words he said were
to ask me to go and see his mother often
and then he babe God bless me, aud called |
ne "his dear friend" He was very kind !
always! ... .a'
We had a quiet winter, for my health |
was not good being often delicate in
My mother and Zillah took
care of me, and was very grateful for |
theirIove. l got we'll at last,as the spring
time begun, and went on in my old ways.
TO BE CONTINUED.