The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-05-27


did not lore M. have really mean,
TO leave you all this time, Robert. Bu,
when heard abou: Miss Dudley-oh,
could not bear thstl I knew then
st' once. thst I should die IL yeu |, fl
me fos her. Rsbert you wont do it
you can't do i'll am your wife and I
love You. I have cine to ask you te
take me back
Thers was . long silence. Cathy
wept silently, still holding her hus-
bsod BY the hsod. But he stared
0eodi;y into the fire. like ono dazed
with . sudden surprise.
'Yoa applied for the divorce your
self be said. at last.
But you drove No 70 il, Robert.
You know you drove me to it when you
LEFT me and baby 70 cruelty. And it
naso't 60 O any Longer. / can't give
She gazsd anxiessly into his half
avsrted lace. and then rose from her
knees. and going into the bedroom, re-
turned With her child in her arms.
The baby jast swskeaing from .
found deep. looked round sith wide
open blue eyes. and flushed cheeks and
rssy lips. beating the air proudly with
his clsnched 6st until he caught sight
OF the moody figure bending over the
/ lHs knit his fAxea heows, sravely
eenAidsEisg Il. thsn looked 10 his
mother's face. with crow OF delight,
and called out loudly:
'Pspa! pspar
For weeks past she had been trying
70 teaeh him to say that word. In vain,
aha believed.
Hearing il now for the first time.
from those innocent lips, she burst into
ntassin. o
.PspH pspar cried the baby. else>
fully, and reaching down from his
mothers srms, he laid his soft hsnd
upon the bowed head Of the young man
and then patted his cheek.
For his sake. Robert. if not for mine,
tome back TO uo. sobbed the poor young
wife.
The stubborn heart melted meath
the hsby's caresses and her own i'm
plCrl. r eDne. sr=ss .Evsss asfF
God forgive me! ! have been very
cruel 70 you. Csthy. but Ill try and
mako it up to you and the boy here
after, - he rose sud gathsred wife and
child 70 his heart in . fond embrace.
Not long did they lingsr in the Dud-
ley mansion after their reunion.
That same evening saw the wife and
child established in the comfortable
house fer down the valley where Rob-
srt jordan had dwelt 90 long alone.
And when the nine dsys' wonder
yas fairly over, the whole neighbor-
hood rallied Loyalty around the still
girlish wife. and gave her Q kind aud
fiendly wslcome that she can never
forget till her dying day.
1t is six-sud twenty years since this
true story was lived through by its diff
ferent characters. among the fair
P1ymcath bills.
] heard the tale in my childhood, snd
it was rscalled to my mind this day by
sssing 10 . Local paper the anneunos-
nsnt OF the marriage of Robert Jor-
dan. Jf. 20 Catherine. the ooly daugh.
Ter Of Truman and Alison Dudley. all Of
Ply mouth
Thna. In the second gensr stien the
wsanl hes been healed. the old wrong
has rghted itself.
Bot Alison Dudley. who has been
the happy wiis Of her Cousin Truman
tos nessiy fivs-and twenty years. would
only smils today II I should speak Of
that cid roaauos hefore her. for she has
entirely iorgotssn that she ever loved
another than her ON, husband. think.
But II I should speak q Il 70 Cstby.
th6 uifs of Robezt Jordon. know veil
hov joadlys shs awoald look at her
good nan bcsids the drs. and. how
Solkly sAs would Whisper the enc motto
oG ahss iife-.Lovsi wins love back
o8Nuts asas+sfGs ss @ss1 uasts * BE-