The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-04-11

mv the wrong which / did you, aud
~mNa | think it is due you, to con
@ Tess 70 YOU and ask forgiveness for,
;'Iio ouo =. .,"s;se ,mn;sweak enough to let the
your sewing urcle influence me
enough TO make na doubt some.
times whether you we,ld love tho
pennyless Harry Morss, as wall %
as you did the wealthy me,Uhant of
the same name.'
ooh! Harryw and the woru,
came with wailing, painful EN-
phasis, that told her husband bet
ter than words would have done
how much his words had pained
her and his thoughts wronged her
Harry soon obtained his gentle,
little brides pardon and then told
her in a short, story of his financial
ruin, and that he was now a penni-
less man, compelled to seek en-
ployment to maintain her.
"Is that what You 30 dreaded to
tell me, Harryi But then, 1 under.
stand, you feared l would not love
you in your altered fortune. If
your unexpected transition from
wealth to poverty will prove to
you the utter groundlessness of
such a suspicion, | receive it with
JOY. l was poor when you married
me, and / am glad that l was since
| can show you how 1 can help you
now that you shall need me-"
Harry Morgan was the head of
the now ruined firm of Morgan &
Bro, in the fine commercial city of
G, and had married Eva
Moore, milliner's sewing girl,
whom he first saw when no accom-.
panied his proud sister, Mrs. Carl
ton, to the store to purchase some of
her wedding finery; much to the dis
gust of his friends and family, none
of whom had ever entered his Gel
Dorado" of home since his bride
had crossed the threshold, except
ing Tony, his wagish partner and
twin brother, who seemed to Eva
to possess no cares, no antipathies
nor preferences, aud indeed no
character but that of a daredevil
wag. ..
els it then so very stranger" at
length asked Evaiu a sad, low tone,
"that |, a lonely orphan girl,
thrown upon my own slender re-
sources to support myself in this
hard, unfeeling world, with no
known relative or friend upon this
wide earth to care for me, should
love the only being who ever show.
ed her any kindness or clvilty?
Harry, you never must allow any
suspicious of me to rankle in your
heart again, for if you do, you will
kill me. You are all, all l have"
1t was in vain that the husband
vowed his repentance, and assured
her that he trusted her fully. Eva
was very sensitive, and with no un-
kind thoughts of Harry, she be-
came from that hour a thoughtful
and determined woman, aud the
one end ana aim of her lite was to
retute the charge of Harry's moth.
er and sister and the world in which
Harry moved, had laid against her,
viz: That she had married him
for his money, and lured him into
that misalliance with every imagin.
able vile and art of a heartless
Siren because he was infatuated
with her beautiful face. They who
made these charges forgot that
Harry Morgan had seen nearly
thirty summers, while the "arttul
Siren" he married was not yet
seventeen.
Everything was settled, and
here was no helping it. Harry's
creditors had swept all and left him
scarcely bread to eat, he must
work or starve; and as he had no
,hOught of doing the latter he ac- :
,epted the only thing which at
present presented q chance of .,
wedding the last named extremity.
There was plenty of work but no +,
'acant situations, aud Harry could ,
lot wait, so he accepted the situa- :
ion of lighthouse keeper at Fish
RS Cove, at the southern extremi- +,
y of the @ harbor, twenty :
niles distant from the city. He =
vas offered q good salary and an
.ble assistant. Tony was going in
he last named capacity, and SO :
was arranged for their
departure in few days. None of 8
hem had any idea of what kind of II
place Fishers Cove was, or by =
that kind of people it was inhabit- y
d; or they may have felt less Sc !.
urity in going among them. Eva, II
nknOwn to every one else, ap- !
lied for the public school. which ?
lso commanded very handsome II
alary; and, after going through a a
course of examination, U
he was invested with the necessa-
y papers by the superintendent of y
ducation at C, to commence U
in the public school house
t the Cove, on the following Mon Il
ay. Fishers Cove is one of the d
lost romantically beautiful places o
has ever been my luck to visit. Ii
is situated on hooked point, in Ii
resent shape, and the concave is
ashed by the waves of the broad b
.tlantic, while the inner, OF exeave, n
Icloses a smooth and placid bay, fe
hich stretches far away to the oi