New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-28

Sir said the father it's fine speaking You've
taken our treasure, and now you throw yourself on
our mercy. What can we do to your Am likely
to strike You, do you think through my BARN
Father said Jeanne, again 1 She was frightened
with kind of timi daring, and put her hand
through his arm. Her cheeks We're wet with
upon his arm, cingng to him. WAS to let him
break his hearth
Lads do not break their hearts. 1 can say
Then lot it be like that, cried Jeanie i am a
silly thing. ! am like you father II he had gone
then when you saw it, and watched me dwining
IKE poor Mary Scott not SO far OIL ana put me IN
Would You a' have said aid te efY ' "" '' '''' nav
You are cruel, Jeanie, said her father. Heart !!
there is no heart in YOU young things. You nina
your mother of one BARN she has lost to make her
heart soft till she forgves the lad that has stolen
another
Patrick, Patrick! She didna mean it, cried his
| didna mean it, father. / never Thought of it..
Ana It's me I'm asking You to forgive sad the
little Guilty. rubbing her soft cheek against his
Your He laughed again, and held the clasped
hands close to his side for moment Well, you've
come home There's grace in that Forgive You.
We're likely folk TO make Il quarrel with our own
BARN. 60 away TO your mother I've got some
thing to say to this fool of lad You'll follow me,
sir, to my room
TO your room ? cried Jeanie in alarm. To expose
her husband unprotected to her fathers wrath was
risk she had never contemplated and it filled her
with dismay. She chung with both hands TO Mr..
wistful of looks against his heart. Let come,
too she said her pretty mouth quivering and all
the lines OF her face dropping into pathetic, childish
apprehension of that most traglcal OF all calamles,
scoldng from her father How was Edward to
ENCOUNTER that alonei Let me come too m
You will stay with your mother, Jeanie The
lad is less worth than think him if he is feared to
tell his story on his side, eye to eye with me- me
Jeanne, stay with your mother, cried The young
Darling, trust me-and trust him.
Mr.. Pilans good man. but he mortal,
liz IN
almost roughly. It's new to me-, he said, to
hear my BARN hidden to trust me. We have to put
has kindly instructed her to trust YOU too Marga-
rel. You will try your best to console her for the
want OF HIM for ten minutes. must speak to the
Jeanne paid little attention to tho sting of
wounded feeling IN her fathers words. Seventeen
is so full of its own concerns-and it is so difficult
realize those of others at that inexperienced age
and what IN heaven or earth could be so important
followed them to the door mutely communicating
her sympathy to her partner with her eyes and
hands, which olasped his as he passed her. Ed,
his head high as he went out turning back to give
q smile and nod of encouragement to his little
bride.
oh, If he's hard on my Edward" cried Jeanne.
IL he says cruel things to him oh. if they would
have taken me with them! Why should, you try
to part us and scold us separate We could bear It
better together. Oh, if he's hard on my Edward
when he gets him all aloner
You have very little confidence in your father
said Mrs. Pillans, Jeanie-Jeanic, when was your
father hard upon either Lad or lassP
y, Oh mother, how should you knowi It's
Edward l am thinking Of, cried the girl. He's
not one to stand up for himself. If it was me- he
would fight for me like lion But for himself
aud he Gamma manage my father he will not know
how TO speak to him; he Gamma manage him like
me-
lyon little cuttyr said her mother: 'you manage
your father without thinking in the meantime
that you, have enough ado to beg our pardon Tor
YOURSELF
i m no thinking of myself was all that Jeanne
said.