Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-03-15
NO. Ga.
Gales and Sketehes.
For the Journal.
TwOFOLD.

trace Horton was sure law had be-
| logged Testers brain, making him un-
usually taciturn. Such was her silent
| conclusion one afternoon. when the fog
had obscured the ocean in an impenetra-
| BILE cloud, clinging like thick veil to the
trees, and had settled, finally on the
lightsome hearts of Farragut House. until
| its inmates were most reserved and un-
social
Mr. Barely decided to return to New
York. He could leave his business no
| longer.
II will not urge you to remain against
your WILL" said his wife, "but fear the
strangely apparent interest of Harry Les
ter, in regard to his fathers counting house
has increased your interest, or has caused
it entirely"
| Her husband did not deny the correct
ness of her inference, but assured her he
knew of no occasion for alarm.
| After the departure of the gentlemen,
not even drive on the circuitious beach
could divert the ladies from their disap-
pointment at so sudden change in their
plans, since the trip to the White Noun
tains must be deferred to another season.
| On the first of September they left New
Hampshire, and Grace was a minority of
one in her desire to wait awhile longer.
Lizzie Archibald declared that Grace's un-
Willingness to return was only an assertion
of an independent opinion. to which she
was prone.
| The fitting months had completed lit
tie more than year since the journey to
Rye Beach. Autumn's shorter days and
cooler winds were foretelling winter.
Shrewd business men foresaw q financial
panic not far off; but not till the blasts of
November were about to be superseded
by December's snow storms, did the crash
come then one firm failed after another,
like row OF topping bricks, which
| tall continuously.
William Lester was almost penniless.
Richard Barely lost merely nothing.
Harry Testers latent force of character
was developed Immediately into resolute
action. Educated under the guidance Of
his father and Judge Hamilton, his ready
intelligence could grapple with adversely,
accomplishing what would have been i'm
possible without such discipline. BY dint
of his own energy. he finished his profess
sional studies, and comforting his father,
who did not regain his former CONNER
ciai inhuence-he was soon admitted to
the bar.
Lester had never been quite sure
|
his fathers failure in business. Then he
knew she was very dear to him, and his
poverty seemed an insurmountable obsta-
Gle between them; he was glad he had
not asked her to marry him heretofore.
If Grace felt as much sympathy for
Lester in his misfortune as other people,
she did not express it. But she watched
his advancement in his profession with
silent interest, refusing many eligible Of
fers, until she was considered almost
heartless; yet, when he told her Of his
love, she was unmindful of any admoni-
ton not to wed the comparatively poor
but talented young lawyer.
| Meanwhile, the "chances and changes
of life" had fallen most heavily on Mary
Barely. Not until after the death of Mr..
and Mrs. Barely, who were shipwrecked
and lost At sea, while she was rescued
herself, did she know she was only their
child of adoption. Her grief was two
fold sorrow for the death of her parents,
and anguish because they were not such
in reality. Mrs. Lester told her of her
piiitul orphanage, when two years old,
and o.! the cruel desertion of an infant by
relatives, who had never interested them
selves in her behalf. She was adopted by
the chidIess Mrs. Barely. who had en-
Joined every one to whom this fact was
known, not to declare the secret OF Mary's
parentage; many intimate friends of the
family did not suspect it.
Mr. Barely had always intended to
make will, bequeathing the greater por
ton OF his property to his adopted dsugh-
ter; but he had neglected to do so, trust
ing ne should live to see her established in
life. As soon as he was dead, distant rel
atives became the heirs who cutched the
last dollar from one, who had enjoyed al
ready SO much wealth to which she was
not born.
Thus, at twenty-one years of age, Mary
Barely was left with nothing but few
mementoes of her loved ones, and these
trifles, as for their value in gold, were
given to her with much ostentalion.
Wretchedly forlorn, half defiant spirit
urged her on to exertion. bid
ding her win her way in the world.
But how should she begin? Where
should she go? Reviewing deliberate
ly the resources within herself, she
was forced to admit that her education
was superficial, or, at least, not such as is
required of a teacher, whose r, munera-
ton is ample enough to procure the neces-
sites of life, and to afford some of its lux
l
in gaining her livelihood; experience
taught her, there were professional music
teachers in the cities, with whom she could
not compete. and in the small towns. the
lucrative situations were constantly filed
by numerous applicants. under influential
patronage. She felt inadequate to the
teaching of school, as she could not i'm
agine herself Furnishing unruly urcbins.
Her final decision was to be governess;
perhaps, vague, indefinite longing for q
home might have prompted this decision.
although she knew she would be only
dependent in the home of another
Mary Barely obtained situation on the
Hudson; two little girls were intrusted to
her; sometimes, they were self-willed,
but much more frequently they were obe-
dient. Her patience seldom failed; this
was not her tlial. 1t was bitter to her
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