American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

into the wide passage again, to another
work-rOom.
1t were too tedious a task to follow
every step of these two as they passed
from room to room, everywhere meet
ing some assurance of Mr.. Wilkinson's
own hold upon the hearts of the
90 hands, and their terror of Cyril
Ormsby's harshness.
Out again amongst the squalid homes,
where her guardian had no control, but
bestowed his kindly charity without os-
tentation; and here, more eloquently
than ever, Mile heard how cruel a
mockery were all the schemes of charity
and philanthropy that had been poured
into her ears. 1t needed no spoken
words from her guardian to tell her that
the noble words uttered to win her were
but those of hypocrisy, which knew how
it could best plead its cause with her.
One and another, turning to Mr.. Will
kinson as to a friend, unaware of the
torture of their words to the kindly lady
beside him, told of cruel exactions of
work, in sickness or trouble, of closest
calculation of time, of small wages and
heavy rents.
If we won't live here and pay, we
get no work in the factories - one said,
when asked why he did not seek a more
healthy quarter.
81 am doing overtime to pay for my
chilu's funeral - one said, t'for [ lost the
wages for three days. stayed by her
to see her die, and to bury her,
''I'm uneasy about the rent" another
said, g for 1 lost week by fall on the
ice, and it's hard making it up again"
Not one word of kindly sympathy, of
help, in trouble or sickness. The
g hands, under Cyril Ormsby were
simply human machines to do so much
work, sick or well, or pay the price OF
an hour or day of idleness, no matter
| how necessary.
There was no word spoken as Mr..
Wilkinson and Mile walked to the
office again. Once there, the old gen.
tleman spoke, very gravely. GAS your
guardian, Mile, can speak to you no
word against Cyril Ormsby. He is d
rich man, of good social position, of If
reproachable moral reputation, and a
man whose standing in business circles
is of the highest. A man who is a good
match in every worldly sense. So much
for your guardian. As your friend, my
pearl, who loves you as your own dead
father might have loved you, who knows
every noble impulse of your pure soul
as that friend, tell you l would rather
see you lying beside your mother than
the broken hearted wife of such man
as Cyril Ormsby.''
90 came to you as friend, as almost
a father" said Mile, ''and l thank
you for keeping me from lifelong mise.
ry To know my husband such a MAI
as I now knew Cyril Ormsby to be
would, as you say, break my heart.''
81 would not tell YOU said he1
guardian, s. for you knew | disliked him,
and might have thought that dislike
prejudiced me. But, Millie, tell me you
will not let this days work shadow yOul
life. You did not love Cyril, Millie?'
"No. l reverenced what | believed
a noble, generous nature. That rever-
ence a mockely, L shall never break my
heart for a man L thoroughly despise
! Uncle Mare
And so it happened that Cyril Orms.
by, coming to claim the fortune he be-
lieved to be within his grasp, met only
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distinct refusal to resign herself or hel
fortune to his keeping. But he never
knew how it was that Mile learned the
true value of his hollow words of char.
ity and philanthropy.