The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-04

to the manliness that she sees in the
fierce triumph shining out of his eyes.
The next day all the soft beauty has
gone out of Nature, and her sterner
mood seems aroused by the unnatural
betrayal of hospitality and deliberate
deception instead of being allayed by the
happiness of the lovers. The water that
forty-eight hours before spoke only OF
the Skimpole side Of life with its lazy ac-
cent. now lashes itself to wake to the
the waves is changed to an uneasy rush
and hoarse whisper; their bright diamond
points give way to dull, leaden hue
that is only hardened by the white caps
cleaning with their continuous energy
as far as the eye can reach. As our rum
Always fly along on the railway to Roches-
ter, they see the storm-rack
t'Come rolling III ragged and brown"
and in that sheet of spray and rain and
wind, each movement orertaking and
hiding another and another sail, they
think they see shadow of the darkness
lying before them and forbidding a
glimpse Of their future.
Of this part of their story there is lit
to tell. If we were to follow them we
would see them on the wedding tour,
happy in the present, and thinking little
of any trouble to come. Then came the
return of Mr.. Larton, his grief at his
daughters fight and anger at her hus-
band: his inquiries. too late. about jim
ME by letters and even detectives, with
the reports of mortal turpitude and bad
reputation that the detectives feel bound
to give him to justify their use and their
pay; and finally comes the day when,
under the influence of these reports. OF
his hurt pride and disappointed affection,
and spurred on by his wife's cautious en-
couragement, he writes to Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon, waiting for his answer in New
York, that they shall never enter his
house.
We viii pass over the receipt of this
letter, with its message of sorrow to
Eta, of anger and bitter disappointment
to Jimmie; over the brief year after the
marriage, while they live modestly on a
few thousand dollars that Eta had in
her own bank account at the time OF the
elopement: over the awful day when,
this giving out, letter begging pardon
and reconciliation is replied to with:
''DEAR SIR Your favor of tho 28th received.
My letter to you of year since fully covers the
question upon which you touch. Please con-
slider our intercourse and correspondence closed.
''Yours truly, HENRY LABroN."
And the storm-rack closed down over
them, driving into their very souls the
mist and cold.
The little girl born few weeks before
this is their only child, and its babyhood
knows only hardship; but when, at five
years old, she begins to delight her
father with miniature of Eta Larton
that trouble has SO quieted and changed
into Eta Gordon, she has father who
is man, instead of the selfish, lazy
parasite the forgiveness by Mr.. Larton
would have made him. His old friend,
Mr.. More, long before this had got him
a start in a clerkship with very small
salary; but meeting one day Mrs. Pc
ters, who had always been fond of him,
she persuades Mr.. Peters to secure him
another lift, by which he improves him
self; so that, six years after his marriage
day, he finds himself beyond the reach of
want, although still a poor man. As
the little family sit on this evening, a
cheerful circle, though with the cloud
that recollection still casts over them,
visitor comes. So changed is he from
the Henry Larton of old, that Eta
pauses before she flies to his arms.
"My daughter says this white haired
man, II am widower again, and have
come to ask you if you will come back to
me.;'
80 papa! love you STILL and J. pity
you; but have husband and child"
"My dear" smiling, II don't want to
separate you from them. Can't you bring
them with you?"
''Excuse me, SIR" interposes Jimmie.
81 cannot be taken by nv wife now.
and our struggles together have at least
taught me that it is better to make nv
own living than to live on any mans
aims"
'Mr. Gordon, I do not wish you to
come for your sake, but for mine; and if
the reports of your business capacity are
true, | think shall get the better Of any
bargain [ can make with you. I have
learned, in short, that you have brains,
as we'll as handsome face, and am pre-
pared to be proud of my son-in-law."
Let us leave them here. This, our
Jacob served hir apprenticeship for only
six years, and that after he got his
Rachel; but it served him in good stead,
and like Hopeful in the story book, he
found his fortune when he had truly
earned it.