The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-24

ming the old story about her cousin
Jack.
"Well, I don't know but I may as
I well tell you that too, now I'm in for
il. He was a wonderful handsome
young man, Jack Halidane, when he
come here TO study law with the Squire,
and only q little older than Mary. I
used to think they we're like a picture
in a Souvenir OF Friendship I had
when l see them riding horseback to-
/ gether, so gay and laughing they were,
aud both so handsome and full Of life
Folks said they were engaged, but
don't know how il was, only / know
Mary was dreadful unwilling to 90 to
New York that Winter, whereas she'd
always gone with the greatest delight
before. But her friends kept writing Of
the parties they wanted her for, and her
father was so proud Of her being ad-
mired that he insisted she should go.
"But it was a bad thing for Jack Hal
idane, for he was inclined to be fast
when he came here from college, but for
Mary's sake he'd seem to steady down.
He was jpst at the age when he needed
good influences, aud after she left
heard some things 1 was sorry to hear
about him and | worried consid' rable
when / heard how much he was with
Jennie Blake, a light headed little
piece the blacksmith's daughter.
was afraid he'd put notions into her
head, but I'd no idea twas as bad as
twas till the day Mary Halidane came
home in Spring then it all came out,
and il was as bad as il could be.
Martha told me, aud she's lived at
the Squire's ever since his wife died
She said Mary hadn't been home an
hour before Jack came in looking as
! pale as death. She sail Mary came
/ flying down stairs 50 rosy aud 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 lis
| tening, il seemed so queer (and she is a
little curious, Martha isl and the first
she heard was a little cry from Mary,
as if she'd heard bad news. BY aud by
she heard him sObbing just like a girl,
and twice he said, on, Mary, / wish
we're deadn
''She said they were talking more'n
an hour, but she only maie out to hear
that much till the last, when Mary said
quite 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 Jennie 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 How
. somever, it was no match for Jack Hall
dane, for off he started for California,
leaving her well provided for, they say
but she never saw him agsin; and
what's become Of him don't know, il
, anybody does.
"Well, you see this was the story that
come into my mind in meetin'; before
could say Deliver US from Temptation
it'had ali flashed aerOst me, and how I'd
heard the day before that Jennie Hall.
daue was running down with quick con,
I sumption, leaving the little girl to nc
better care than that drunken fathers
and somehow / couldn't force myself [,
s forget n all and listen to the minister
He-was improving the occasion Of tn,
Squire's death with Almost the sam,
sermon he preached when Mr.. Beeb
died and I'm sure l ought to have at
tended 10 that.
'But as l couldn't get Jennie Blakt
out OF my mind, / began to think, Per
haps the Lord is going TO use me as
guide board for Mary Halidane,' sine
- It don't make any difference how bat
tered and worthless the board is if only
the guiding-hand has been put on it.
80 that night, though not in thl
habit Of making Sunday visits, slippeI
round after dark TO sit awhile with Mis-
Halidane, and as soon as I'd got my
breath l said, plump, Did you know
your cousin Jacks wife was a-dying2
"She was still a minute, and then shu
: said, I've never seen her since No,
dfHnff trmnur- II Thar "a nfaffH
: Beebe; what will become OF it?'
I The Lord knows / said, and saiC
> it reverently. Its a little girl, Jenni,
. she named her, and she's got eyes a.
, blue as any Halidane that ever lived.'
81 know / was blunt, but l thought
g the Lord would explain il TO her bette
I than / could. And so He did in tn,
! course Of the night, for next day Mis-
: Halidane stopped a minute at my doc
on her way over 10 Nh. Blake's. Their,
was look in her eyes hadn't ever seei
, in 'em before, but it's been there eve
. since, as if there was a new light in hei
soul showing through 'em somehow
: for it couldn't "a been a light or easy
thing for one Of Mary Halidane's spir
I tied nRtur' to forget what a cruel WTOnl
Jennie Blake had done her. But per
4 haps she'd been able to understand how
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: had heard the Lord say TO her, If thin
A enemy hunger, feed him, and so she va
: on her way TO poor Jennie.
e "She stayed with her until she died
. of aud on, and Miss Sanford, who tool
care of her nights, told me that jennie
( said, Now / believe the Lord will for
r give my sins; I ain'ta a bit afraid Of Hin
4 any longer, for Mary says He sent her
, N He nnuzf lta uood and kind "a Ghl
, says
3 "She died quite peaceful and happy
poor thing, leaving her little girl 4
- Aunt Mary as she was taught TO cal
- her; aud when IL was all over Mis-
? Halidane brought the pretty little. cir
5 home with her, and that was the begin
r ming Of Miss Halidane's family.
4 "It wasn't long after that that tn
o railroad accident happened down her
3 at Huutonville, and the brakeman tina
7 was killed left two little motberles
/, children, boy and girl, and no friend
1 to speak Of.
e "There was a great deal OF sympathy
: felt for 'em, and some talk Of a subscrip
e tion paper, but nobody led Off in IL
. Some went over 10 see the children an,
( took clothes and things. But SOM
{ folks don't use Judgement, if they a,
mean kindly. There was Mrs. James
D she took a stove pipe hat Of her hus
! bands and an old Grape veil Of her n
, she said il was all she had in the hOusl
z to spare, and they might be useful, an,
) she was quite provoked 10 find they has
on as good shoes as her children wore
She thought they want needy afte
, that.
"But being no orphan asylum in thesl