The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-13


IS yet time; retract your refusal, become Mr..
Severne's wife and all will be saved
Estelle trembled as her fathers words,
first angry and then imploring. fell upon he,
ears.
''Father, cannotl 1t would be a sin
were to marry him, for love another. .
With an angry gesture, Mr.. Glyndon
made step forward; then, with an excla'
nation, he raised his hand to his head, stag.
gered, and fell to the floor.
Poor Estellel Bitter were the days tha,
followed! On tho very eve OF his failure
her father was stricken with paralysis, and
before long the girl found herself homclest
and almost penniless.
After the first shock had passed, then the
noble nature that had slumbered quicscent
30 long in Estelle Glyndon's soul sprang to
the surface. Steadily refusing all offers OF
assistance, she set herself untiinchingly
amid the ranks of the worlds workers. 1t
was easier to obtain employment IN the
neighboring city than in their own small
town, and to the city Estelle went.
After thee years had gllded by, Estelle
was called to her dying parent; and as she
knelt by the bed where be lay calm and
still, she felt that she was, indeed, alone.
Better to be as she was, poor and hard.
worked, than the unloved wife of Foster
Severnc.
1t was evening, few months later. The
streets were wet with the fast-falling rain.
Clasping large parcel in her arms, girl
ish figure essays to cross a crowded thor
oughfare. A carriage swiftly passes. There
is cry in a woman's voice. Then, amid
a, babel of voices, tHow sadl" ''Who is
shea" 'How did it happen3" sligh: form
Is borne upon mems arms into the nearest
house. There is no clue by which to tell
who the unconscious girl ls.
sit does not matter who or what she is, )"
says the kind minister into whose house tho
stranger has been carried. "We will care
for her." And 80, instead Of being sent to
the hospital, the sufferer remained at Doc
tor Stewards home.
Another week went by, and one morn
ing. with beamlng face, old Doctor Stew
art came into the room where his wife and
Estelle were sitting.
"What do you think, wife9-our boy is
coming home! He will be here this week.
Isn't that news.
Tears Of Joy sprang to the old lady's
eyes.
"My dear boy! how glad shall be to see
himl".
When her husband had left tho room.
Mrs Stewart explained to Estellc that 1t
was her dead brothers son, who was as
dearly loved by her husband end herself as
though he had been their own, who was
thus eagerly expected.
ut was q sad blow to us when he went
30 far away" she concluded, "and what
made it saddcr still was that the noble lad
carried with him heart full of pain. Some
fashionable beauty had bewitched him, and
then had deliberately crushed out his hap
piness. But hope and trust he will return
cured Of his heart wound.
1otSllC HtuCFu lS Blu lloICuCu.
The days passed until the one came in
which the expected guest was to arrive.
Clad in a simple dress of white, Estelle
was reclining upon the library sofa when
the carriage wheels sounded upon the
gravel
She heard the eager tones of welcome;
and then the voices approached the room in
which she was. The door opened, and
there, older and graver than she remember
cd him, but still tho same, stood Douglass
Macdonald!
"Estclle!" he cried, "my darlingl
came to seek you, and have found you al
ready! Oh, tell me that am Welcome
that you are glad to see me. i only lately
heard of your refusing bIr. Sevcrne and of
your misfortunes. Then in my heart q
faint hope sprans into existence, and I dc.
termined to return and seek you and try
once more my fate. Can it indeed be that
my hope is not to prove in vain2"
Estellc lifted her eyes to his, and IN their
luminous depth Douglass read his answer.
Later, everything was explained to Doug
lass; how 1t was that he had so unexpected
ly found Estellc in his unclc's home, aid
all that Fad occurred since they had parted.
''My dear friend, you little thought VIII :,
was tho fashionable, heartlcss girl who
refused your boy y true heart, said Estelc,
softly, to old Mrs. Stewart, as the happy
group of four were drawn together about
the lamp that evening; "but you will for
give her, | ain sure, when she promises
that henceforth that boys happiness shall
be her foremost care, and that she will try
to the utmost Of her power to repay him for
the pain which, through her foolish, wick
ed pride, she once caused him to suffer-"