The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-04

scription TO the uttermost.
/ Colonel Augustus Marblehead was too
happy and too busy to thinsor know
very mnch about the life struggles Of a
robbed and injured woman. He was as
lucky in finance as in love, aud being
prospered in these two relations, how
could he sympathize with the misfor-
tunes Of those VINO never had been
happy and successful ia either?
But Martha Marbleheaj, the junior,
was a very different sort Of person from
Martha Marblehead, the senior Not
bur that she was ambitious for her hus-
band, and proud Of his honors and sue
cesses. she loved him, aud, per couse-
quence, his people also. The attach
ment OF the guileIess Ruth to ancient
Boaz was not more complete than hers;
nor did Ruth's artless assertion, "Thy
people shall be my people, aud thy God
my God" more fitly apply TO the one
I than the other.
when Martha Jones nee Marblehead
had parted from her children aud her
home, and had written TO King, as
above quoted, aud had started forth in
the world, penniless aud alone, her first
thought was to meet her mueh-loved
sister-in-law, with whom she held long
and important counsel.
"Nou are the only woman, my sweet
sister, who has not counseled me to go
back, with my children, under the i'm
/ perious rule Of the one woman whom, of
all others, have most cause TO dread, "
said the homeless one.
~ realize the situation," was the
kind reply, "and would not for the
world see you thus humiliated; but I
had hoped that you and our mutual
mother, according-to-the-law had 10y
this time completely buried the
hatchet."
81 have forgiven her, but cannot for
get the past, aud I cannot live ia her
sight Hard indeed is il for me to be
deprived of the society of my little ones,
but il is better so than that I should
spoil their dispositions by rejecting
own outrages. To my mind, the mother
who can give up the society of her chill
dren for their good is far more heroic
and unselfish than the one who stays
with them constantly to crafty her self
love, when she can best further their
. interests by going away into oblivion"
"But where will YOU 20, sister?"
81 do not know"
"Surely you will not hide from me ."
81 cannot say"
"Have I not always been your friend?"
"Yes, dearie; il isn't that"
"Theu-don't be angry if 1 ask you a
question, will you"
"No, you precious goose"
"Well, you know, sister, the talk is
that you are going of to meet King
. Greensborough. 'Tisn't true, is it?'
"Then you, too, doubt me. o, my sis
ter, I did not look for this"
81 beg a thousand pardons, dearie;
but, judging your love for King by
mine for Gus, feel as though my ques-
ton wasn't altogether criminal The
difference only lies in the fact that we
are married, and you are not"
"a difference that makes a wide dis
iinction, sister mine. Do You know, 7
sometimes lose faith in God, in heaven,
and in humanity? And then, again,
cannot help believing that there is a life
beyond human ordering, where the
wrongs Of this existence can be righted.
Some day ! believe I shall come 90
King, as his other self; but 1 fancy it
will be when each Of Us has shufiled Oh
this mortal state. and shall be clad 30
the incorruptible robes Of Immortality.
I wrote to him the other day, express
ing my doubts Of everything. 1 wish
had added as a postscript the hope that
/ have just mentioned. It might have
comforted him"
"Well, sister, for my part, I confess
that to me there's great deal Of trans
ceudental nonsense in your heroics. II
God intended you and King as counter
parts of each other, and it looks % me
that he did, else you wouldn't be sd
thoroughly in love with each other. D.,
meant that you should enjoy this life 20.
gether, as well as the next I never 81,
believe in surfeitiug the system on th,
bitter thing of life, till We would Jos,
all taste for even the sweets Of itn
"Then what would you have me @,
do?"
"Go where you please, or stay here, &
p you like. Our home aud hearts are bia
enough for you. Obey the laws Of men
p badly as you have been outraged 10y
, them, until you are legally divorce,
2 from man-made bonds, and then yol
s can be in a position TO give the laws o
D God a chance"
- "But you know the law Of Jesus
r Would l not violate an important com
e mand should I, as a divorced woman
] become wife ."
a The little woman laughed merrily.
'The iron-jacket discipline Of Majo
5 NIarblehead has colored your imagiua
e tion with its inky clouds" she said, i'm
3, pulsively
+. "But you do not answer my ques
), tion," was the rather petulant response
IS "If you feel morally bound TO hol
Y yourself I'm bondage TO man wh
e brought his wicked aHlorita into you
= very home, and violated every sense q
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