The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-02

| lngly gay. we were invited everywhere
and cur house was constantly filed viii
guests. Balls, soirees, kettledrums an(
the opera, seemed to cngross every hour
Jack and seldom bad n quiet moment
together, yet he seemed to enjoy it with
hi whole heart.
When spring came our last surplus
d ,llar bad been expended, and we were
solely dependent on Jacks monthly
salary.
The warm weather came on, and baby
fell ILL., I hoped day by day that Jack
would say something nbont going bach
to his fathers for the summer, but he cid
not even hint at such a thing.
The days grew longer and warmer.
The sun shone down with pitiless srlen'
dor, and the paved streets seemed like
heated brass
Our fashionable friends futtered cf
like summer swallows, and we were left
aim 1st alone.
"Conldnt you manage to make little
trip to the seashore, my dear?'
Mrs. Marlborough had suggested, and
Jack had caught at the idea with eager
ness.
ave might, Nell. think we can. I'll
try to borrow few hundred somewhere y
"Oh, Jack, 10, tno!" 1 sobbed out in
my remorse and despair. II won't go
to the seashore. You see how i'll baby
is. Oh, Jack, ask your father TO let us
return home"
ooh, you wouldn't be satisfied, Nell,
if we went back. 1t is dreadfully stupid
down there these summer days, with the
haymaking and the reaping, and all that
sort of thing. We should never be able
to endure it now"
snid no more. The long, bright,
burning days wore on, and our bills ran
up higher and higher, and our baby's
little breath seemed to grow weaker and
weaker, and poor Jack himself began 20
look dreadfully ill and worn. And one
afternoon he was sent home in carriage,
quite unconscious, stricken down by a
sudden fever:
Iput my pride aside then and wrote a
letter to Jacks father.
Jack aud baby are both ill, and we
are sick and tired of this life. Pray for
give us, end let us come home"
The very next day the dear old gentle
man arrived, but the bailiffs and the Of
fioers Of the law were there before him
The rumor that we intended to leave
town had got out, and our creditors
rushed in. anxious TO secure the lions
share of our effects. The brussels car
pet, the handsome furniture and costly
bric-a-b-ac all went under. the hammer
at q disastrously low figure.
"Never mind" said my father-in-law,
not shadow of reproach on his kind
old face; ''let them squabble over it if
they will. We must get our sick ones
home"
AS we got Jack into the carriage, and
with his poor hot head upon my face,
and baby in my arms. turned Il y back
upon the scene of my short-lived tri-
umph.
1--WE are going back to Cherry Hill, "
said the old gentleman, as in the dusk
of the golden day we drove through the
dewy stiffness of the mountaiA ravine.
The old home has been waiting for you
all these months. l was spretty sure
you'd want to come back"
could notsutter' one word in answer.
A great full moon was%rising above the
mountain peaks asawe reached the house
Not the smallest ithing was changed
The great red roses bloomed on the ter
race, the bees droned in the hive and thu
cattle-bells tinkled in the barnyard. The
doors stood wide open. We carried
Jack in.and laid him down in the broad
breezy room that had been our brida
chamber.
He opened his eyes and drew deep
quivering breath, as the mountail
breeze touched his throbbing head.
"Nell, where are your he said. Sure
ly this must be homer"
/ II am here, Jack" I answere d
/ through my tears, 'and this is home
dear. old Cherry Hill -
"ThaEk Godl" he murmured, and fel
back upon the pillows, and l saw grea
4 tears trickling slowly from beneath hi
e closed eyelids.
b. Beyond the open window, in the silvG
' glory of the rising moon, the old grand
e father sat, with baby at his fest, ha
I hidden in the rank, cool grass, aud eve
+ at that late hour the pigeons, came Ru
). tering round her as of old, and sh
o screamed with rapture as she clu;che
k at them with her thin.little hands.
Iarose softly aud fell on my knees bt
e side Jacks low pillow.
'Oh, Jack, sobbed, Il have been s
}, wicked. Forgive me, Jack, forgive Il,
t I am so glad to be at home again.
5 His worn face grew radiant, and b
d dear arms held me close.
0 Aud then aud there, clasped 90 m
r husbands heart, in the safe, sweet she
e ter OF the home Le loved, l uuderstoo
ali the past.
c "You didn't mean it, Jack" viii
: pered. You only pretended to enjoy
! all TO please me-"
It He smiled at me with his grave fon
It smile.
a "And, oh, Jack, our money is all gon
( and"
9 He silenced me with kiss.
S "No matter, little woman, the lesso
+ we have learned has been eheapl
d bought. We shall not care to leave u
y safe old mountain nest in search Of fasl
inn and sOri.tV arain"