Daily Republican., 1882-06-22

DoCJCr rlICn DrlRnbiy'
81 an like different creature, SIR
said she, "thanks to you !"
$50 it's ali going right, eh?" sal,
the Doctor.
"You like the place."
II am perfectly happy here" sal,
Mary.
"But, oh, doctor, 1 have no one t,
consult, and I've asked myself til
question 30 many times over tina
Everything seems distorted in my eyes
| wonder if might dare to speak ou
my mind to you?"
"What on earth is the girl talking
about?" said DR.. Fitch.
"If could only see the prison chap
lain"
"Coms, III officiate AZ prison chap
lain, for the time being" said Doctor
Fitch, good humoredly. Out with
your troubles. What Ia it?"
"Well,i.-it isn't exactly trouble, -
confessed Mary, busying herself with
polishing the great red apples which
were to be the crowning glory Of the
desert.
"But think-I am almost certain
that Daniel Glover is getting fond Of
me"
"Hallo " said the doctor.
"Oh, doctor, faltered poor Mary,
T fought to tell him all 2"
Hold your tongue" said the doctor,
brusquely.
"A close mouth makes wise head !
You say you are innocent of all those
charges %
81 was innocent I" cried Mary. 81
am Innocent.
"very we'll" said DR.. Fitch, "then
you are as good az he is.'
And with few kindly words, he
rode on.
But as Mr.. and Mrs. Glover were
coming leisurely home from church,
with Daniel sauntering behind, a sull-
en.eyed tramp slouched up to the for
mer, touching his cap.
! BE you the grist mil. man?" said he
81 am the miller, man ?" said Mr..
Glover.
"Well, then," said the dusty-footed
stranger, "it is my duty to tell you
that you're han boring prison.bird in
in your home"
"What I" cried old Mrs. Glover.
81 knows it blamed WE'LL" asserted
the man, "'cos | was in quod at the
same time she was"
"ThefL for she, and drunk and dis
orderly for me. And wouldn't have
blowed on her, but she refused me
drink of cider, and wouldn't let me in
to warm my feet. / amt no tale.
bearer bat there is some things that
flesh aud blood won't stand p
He stalked on muttering to himself,
while Mr. aud Mrs. Glover and Daniel
stared at each other in Mortified amaze.
ment.
"Mother, is it true?" said Daniel.
at can't be - said the old lady.
"Ask her yourself, said the old mill
er grimly.
Mary met them at the door, with a
radiant smile. The dinner was all
ready the humble array of silver and
the white china tparkled on the board
the fire blazed on the clean swept
hearth.
"Jam 80 glad you have come back /" !
said sic.
"Not that 1 was afraid to be alone,
but there was an i'll looking nan along
just now-Oh, why do you look at me
30 strangely 2"
SIS anything the matter?"
"There Is much the mater" !" said
the old miller sternly. "Answer me,
girl"
"Father, you shall not speak harsh
to her." said Daniel Glover. Come
here, Mary. Lean on me- Nay, do
not tremble so. What is there to be
afraid of? We all know that the brute
spoke lies %
"Is it a lie that you were in prison ?"
said MIS-. Glover.
"It is no lie !' said Mary turning
deadly white.
II served sentence in Exmouth
Prison but-but never was guilty
The circumstances We're all against me.
="
''Then," sternly uttered the old man,
you must leave this house - II
'If she goes, father" said Daniel
flower, firmly, II 60 with her. For !
believe in her, !
"Daniel are you crazy?" said his
mother.
AT that moment, DR.. Fitch rode up,
ooking flushed and excited, yet pleas
d withal. He sprung off his horse and 4
walked into the house, looking Keenly Id
bout him. \
Good people," said he, "wbat is all
his about?"
"We have just heard" walled Mrs.
Hover. that our Mary is a convict"
"Pshaw p said Doctor Fitch. $50 tt
has got around to your ears, has it? a.
have come trom the hospital ward. U
! man was brought in, fatally wound "
d in liquor saloon fray. | exam lt
1ed his hurts. MY man. said I, If ID
ou have any affairs to settle, they had "
etter 10 settled at once, for you have IL
OF six hours to hve." Said he, ''if l III
IN dying there's one or two things l III
ould like to say" And then, in a tn
'lemn confession, he said, among W
her black and wicked revelations, ii
lat he was one of the burglars iu the "
Imous Chartens case-that he hid the cf
liver in Mary Treioil's trunk when, at hi
10 last, he found himself unable to so
.rry 1t all away, she being seamstress pr
the Chartens family, and entirely 81
norant of the whole thing-that he nc
as too closely tracked t. contrive to pl
turn, and 80 she was convicted 10
trough circumstantial evidence, being,
use the v wretch's own words, as in
)cent as a baby all the time. He is a
wing man now, under the care of the NJ
laplain, but he has done his best to Ia,
ght you, Mary Trefoil, in the eyes of s ws
o world 7" frI
MARY" said the miller, II was
rong just now when / spoke up so tr,
dden. viii you forgive me?' nj,
Mary, don't look 80 pale" sohbed afr
rs. Glover. "Here drink some OF this NJ
Id water r. ta.
MARY, dearest" whispered Daniel, wa
he stole his arm around her waist, 70,
knew all along that you were inno- dis
Mt ! | knew you were too good to be to
ght less in
And the last words revived her most &C
all. dr.
Doctor Fitch stayed and helped them wa
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