Daily Republican., 1881-02-04
HOMER EyERErr's FAITH.
BY ANHABRL DWIGHT.

| " OF inc Dluo beAS, love, eAllthR were we.
Light In thy mir hair played tine soft win
londiy thy white arms round me wel
twined.
And 10 we sailed, love, over the sea
The blue eyes beamed love, softly on me-
| soon, DER the bright waves, howled tort
the gale;
FIercely the lightning flashed on our sal
And ns our trall bark drove DER the sea-
Thine eyes Ike loJestaTs boamed, Low,
on me
Oh, heart, aEaken Wreck cd on the shore
Thou art iorsaken dream, love, no more,
1t was weird and plaintive old Low
cong, and the voice which sang II wa
mans voice. h5rant, psseio
tenor, rich, mourniul and despair
ing.
One might think conteuptuously
that a man singing such words will
such intensity must have weak spO
in his composition.
All the same the passionate musi
would have thrilled lover OF melodio
sounds from head to foot; and after on,
glance at the singer, the feeling OF con
t'mpt would have been flooded out ,,
diviuest pity.
lie had the face Of a ssraph, but hi
body was twisted out Of all sem blanc,
to humanity; the spine was crooked
the legs were too short, and the aTms
too long. /! really seemed as II God
had given him his heavenly voice and
the beautiful face to compensate hin
in a measure, for his poor, dwarled And
misshspen body.
The apartment where he sat wa:
maGnIlosntly furnished. The walls
we're tinted, and hung with costly pic
tures. The wiLdoTs were shaded by
curtains Of lace and satin; the carpet
was thick and 5ott, ana smothered thu
sound OF all footsteps.
The only light in the room was that
Of the glowing IRE in the CRATE, and
the hSoad bars OF moonlight WhisL
streamed in between the window dra
periss.
Outside, all the country lay sleeping
in the white SHOWS of winter. The
eims standing guard along the broad
avenue which led TO the house looked
strange and ghost-like waving their
naked limbs in the keen wind which
swept down from the north.
The house was Of gray stone, built
In a grand style, with tBrrets and ga.
bles, giving II the look OF an old Gas
tie.
Its owner numbered his millions;a
its owner was the man who sat at the
piapofofte In his stately parLor, pour
Ing his whole sopl into tie quaint old
love song.
People envied Homer Rverets, de-
spite his defOrnity envied him net
only because OF his wealth, but because
Of his lovely yoRng wife, who appeared
to bs ell that the most exacting lover
could desire.
Two years before Homer Everett's
mother had presided there in the luxn-
tions home-a stately, beautiful old
ady with silvery hair, and most gra-
oious Snd winning manner. She had
engaged for companion Katherine
S!urtevant, with whom Homer had fal.
en madly in love.
Yet how could he declare his pas.
lion,
Would even his immense wealth
prove any temptation for a young and
beautiful creature Ike Katherine TO
nate with himl
There followed months Of dumb Sg-
ny for the unfortunate man.
One day he was thrown from his car
lsge and 30 severely injured that the
physicians declared It would be impos-
ibls for him to live.
Then he confessed to his mother tie
'vermastering love which ne felt for
Ter companion, the lovely girl without
ther home thar that which she earned
y her own accomplishments.
1t was his desire, Homer said, 10 make
Isr his wife now that he mast die
Don, sbe surely would not refuse to
i've him this last brief happiness; and
is widow, even after sharing equally
nth his mother, would bs enormously
SO Katherine was called in and in al
ew comprehensive words the case was
aid before her by Madam Everett,
'hi!e Homer's beautiful, wi5ttul brown
yes clung to her face in silent plead |
ng.
Katharine consented quietly and
ravely, and after the brief ceremony
'hich made her his wife, che took Ter |
roper place beside him, and did not |
,sve 1t through his illness save to |
match a few moments Of necessary |
est.
And greatly TO the sstonishment of
40 attending physicians, the poor. de
,rmed man began to recover, and t.
ally resained once more his ordinary
ealth.
He was Of course naturally delicate,
body so warped and misshspen could
OF in the nature Of things be perfect
strong and robust, but the hurt Of
is accident had not been sufficiently
we're to snap asunder the invisible
lread which held that soul in its un-
nth tenement.
Since his return to life Homer had Ii
zen tortured by a thousand doubts '
I'd missgivings. Katherine was the 9
os. faithful and devoted Of wives, but 8
was so easy to see that her feeling q
r him was not the passionate love '
at a woman gives to but one man In /
etime. Id
He had never been able 10 guess v
ltherine's previous heart history. r
ls made no confidence and required &
ne. v
There was always about her faint d
of reserve, through which t
en- her husband was pOwerless 10 q
eak. Is
Homer only knew that shs had once t
en- differently situated. That her 4
rents had been wealthy, and that q
9 had moved In the best society. .
But her father had ruined himself by Q
oot, tion and had diad n haart -hPo- 4