Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-01-18
was short and pointed, saving:

was my money to which you referred
keep it,and NAV it do you much good
l love YOU, but | do not care to love
and have no return therefore, leave
you. Where | am going no one
knows, but | shall not come back
My trouble has come to me, good bye!
AGNES.
Then, with hot tears burning her
eyes, she went away.
Three days after this Everard came
home, and inquired of the servant
who admitted him where his wife was.
Mrs. Dale left home the same day
YOU did, anl has not yet returned.
Did she say where she was gong?
No, Sir.
Nor leave any word for me?'
Not that | know of, sir.
He stopped to hear no more, but
hurried up the broad stairway to her
rooms. They were chill and lonely,
showing that no one had lately used
them. A terror crept over him, but
he went on to the dressins- room,
which opened beyond her boudoir.-
| There he saw the letter, and breaking
She seal, soon knew the extent Of his
loss
Had his life met no shock, he
would always have remained selfish
and arbitrary man but tins tearing
away of the cloak that id his true
nature from Ii n>elt was " hat he need
ed to waken hi. better manhood.
Il haze wrouged her and she hates
me. he moaned, and vet love her.
and the proud man wept like child
But he reused himself. for, AS | have
>ald, his manhood was strong. i viii
-eek her, he salI, and find her if sh~
BE- alive, and never sh III my feet pass
he door of this house unless she L.
Aith me, or | know that she is dead,
BY inquirp,g at the station hr
tonnd that she had taken the New
York train. So he placed the house
III charge Of an Old servant and fol
lowed her. And how began weary
search. He sought her aIlong hes
d friends, the fashionable peoph
vi b whom she had been wont t"
mingle, but they knew nothing about
her.
Employers Of sewing women were
surprised to have ii sad eyed, tine
looking man solicit the privilege OF
walking through their WorHiVoms ;
but though he visited all of these
places that he could find, aud repeat,
4 the inspection 80 often that the
snpe,nlendents and employees the ,
INN crazy, and refused hlm further
arlmlttance, he could tiud no trace OF
| his Wife
Then he traverstd the vile hannt>
of the city, and entered every home
g! wee, but she was not there. Etci
day brought him no nearer the end
If his search, and still he did noi
grow h, piess.
Once lie thought he saw her. It WA,
in an intricate lntZe OF thoro lShlares
As he was hurrvlng on a cart was
backed violent Y on the sldeWalk.ano
had not II rougn, strong grasp helo
him, his search might have endrc
hen and there when he could agail
proceed, the form he was following
had disappeared. But few second
had intervenAd, arc he hurried t,
The next c,osSlng, expecting to see tn,
familiar figure III this street, but il
was not there.
Then he patiently inquired at ev
cry door for blocks on ether side o
the way he had been following, bn
to no avail. This search through thu
poverty stricken, climr reeking home
of New York made Everard Dale :
worthy man, one in whom love fo
God, as shown in love for his Great
nres, budded and bloomed and grew
to noble iruitage.
If cannot find her, | can do SUN.
good with her money he thought
aud, whilst seeking her, his han'
gave to those he found needing hi
help, and his words OF kindness, hope
and love called up bright smiles Il
many faces.
Leaving her home, Agnes had co n
to the g.eat city, uncertain what &
10 or where to 60, While ner money
lasted she Jared well enough, bu
when it was all gone the bitter tria
came.
She was beautiful, but beauty Wa
. sad dover in the city where it i
bought and sold for gold. She Wa
talented, but such gifts command n'
price " here there is an overIlns o
them. She was good, trustin.,, loving
and the city is full o. bIight'd limo
cence, blasted faith and broken hearts
Agnes sought employment, and a
last, when her plainest garments were
all that hunger had left her, and star
walton stared her in the face her beau
ty obtained work from one who
thonyht to make her his prey.
Those vino have no knowledge o
want, whose well stocked WA drobe
and groaning tables prevent then
from thinking that life is hard. O