Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-17

She said Mary hadn't been home an
hour before Jack come in lookin' pale as
death. She said Mary come flying down
stairs so rosy and happy to see him
again, and he never spoke one word but
led her into the parlor and shut the
door.
"Martha said she couldn't help listen
ing, it seemed so queer (and she is a
little curious, Martha is) and first she
heard was little cry from Mary, as if
she'd heard bad news. By and by she
heard him sobbing just like girl, and
twice he said, 'Oh, Mary, 1 wish 1 were
deadl'
"She said they was talking more'n an
hour, but she only made out to hear that
MUCH 0iIo IasO, wnon nrs.4.y----.a 7--.4-
distinctly: There is only one thing to
do you must marry her; and may God
have mercy on us ALL
"Well, that same day Jack Halidane
married Jenny Blake, and her father
was so drunk he couldn't see the cere-
mony-but that's neither here nor there;
and | don't think Jennie had had light
word said of her before. Howsomever,
it was no match for Jack Halidane, and
off he started for California, leaving her
we'll provided for, they say; but she
never saw him again; and what's be-
come of him | don't know, if anybody
does.
"Well. you see this was the story that
come into my mind in meetin' before l
could say "Deliver us from temptation"
it had all flashed acrost me, and how
I'd heard the day before that Jennie
Halidane was running down with quick
consumption, leaving her little girl to no
better care than that drunken fathers !;
and somehow couldn't force myself to
forget it all and listen to the minister.
He was improving the occasion of the
Squares death with Almost the same
sermon he preached when Mr.. Beebe
, died; and I'm sure ought to have at
tended to that.
"But as ] couldn't get Jennie Blake
out of my mind | begun to think, per
haps the Lord is going to use me as
t guide board for Mary Halidane,' since
D it don't make any difference how batter
ed and worthless the board is if only The
' guiding hand has been put on it.
], $50 that night, though not in th'
+ habit of making Sunday visits, | slip
: ped round after dark to sit awhile Will
k Miss Halidane, and as soon as | had go
d my breath said plump, Did you kno'
s your cousin Jacks wife was a-dying?
a "She was still minute, and then sh
If said, I've never seen her since Nc
d didn't know it. There was chilC
t. Mrs. Beebe what will become of 1t?
st ".The Lord knows said |, and [ sal
is it reverently. Its a little GIRL Jenn
y she named her, and she's got eyes
W blue as any Halidane that ever lived
II knew | was blunt, but though
d, the Lord would explain it to her bett
~ than | could. And so he did in Il
~ course of the night. for next day Mi
I'D Halidane stopped minute at my do
ne on her way over to Mr.. Blake's. The
1t, was look in her eyes hadn't ev
rd seen in 'em before. but it's been the
Iss ever since, as if there was a new lig
lat In her soul showing through 'em SON
d. how for it couldn't "a been light
easy thing for one of Mary Halidan
ne, spirited natur to forget what a crr
all wrong Jennie Blake had done her.
I'm But perhaps she'd been able to. und
,rd stand how Jennie had suffered too a
ce. way, she had heard the Lord say to
me If thine enemy hunger feed him. a
ne SO she was on her way to poor Jennie.
Igh 'She stayed with her till she died,
and on, and Miss Sanford, who tc
ar care of her nights, told me that Jen
Id; said, Now | believe the Lord will
ht- give my sins l amt bit afraid of
sin any longer, for Mary says he sent t
So he must be good and kind as
veil says.
He 'She died quite peaceful and hap
ian. poor thing, leaving her little girl to
to Aunt Mary as she was taught to
' a her; and when it was all over n
ink Halidane brought the pretty little
enir home with her, and that was the beg
1em ming of Miss Halidane's family.
and ..It wasn't long after that that
ONE railroad accident happened down herr
we're Huntonville, and the brakeman that
was killed left two little motherless childl
ling boy and a girl, and no friends to sp
reas of.
de- There was a great deal of sympa
rent felt for 'em, and some talk of subsc
her tion paper, but nobody led off in
her Some went over to see the children
she took clothes and things. But some f
don't use judgment, if they do n
Jack kindly. There was Mrs. Jal
fast she took stove pipe hat Of her
for bands and an old Grape veil of her
own. she said twas all she had in the h
eded to spare, and they might be us
fl T and she was quite provoked to find