Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-09-30
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ter. She is only child and must
look to her." answered Joel quickly
as his eyes sought the floor. d Fl
"And SO you shall. my friend and
if you want, say, littls assistance,
being in foreign land; you might,
You know, why just call upon me g
here" So saying the gentleman d
touched bell. .7 l,
"God bless you, sir | can only
thank you from my soul; but shall
never forget your face nor the kind
words that have touched my heart"
Then Joel turned and followed the
servant through innumerable corri-
dors, till at last they stopp,d before
a door, and in answer to low voiced
Come in" he pushed ths man aside
| and entered ..
The slight figure watch stood up
with half expectant, hat frightened.
eyes turned towaod the door, sank
with a faint moan upon the floor, as
her wronged husband confronted Ger.
With a smoihered cry he sprang
forward and raised her in his arms;
but she, dipping from his clasp, threw
herself, sobbiug at his feet.
Then came her pitiful tale-bow
she had never meant to wrong him,
but he had promesed her such pret-
ty things, aud she had thought it
would be so nice to be lady just for
little while, and he had asked her
if she would like to go up to London
with him for the day, and she hadn't
thought it very much harm to do that,
only she would have liked to have
told Joel first; but when she found
he wouldn' take her back, she had
cried and begged so hard, but it had
done no good. He told her her hue-
band would turn her off, and so he
had come with her to Paris. After
awhile he wasn't half so good to her,
leaving her alone for hours, and one
day he told her he was tired Of her,
aud should send her back to England;
and then he had been taken Ill with
pneumonia, and had died. She had
been so frightened. Long ago she
would have run away and tried to
get back to England, but she had no
money, and then she wouldn't have
dared to go to her husband, she was
so afraid.
With his hand resting tenderly up
on Maggie's bowed head, and his
teeth tightly clinched, Joel listened
to her unhappy story. As she ceased
speaking, he stopped down and lifted
her from the floor like child; then
drew her into the shelter of his arms,
saying:
"Magvie, my wife, will you come
hons with me 2"
mo, no, Joel couldn't go back
to the mines; couldn't look them in
the face there |" she cried out. i'm
ploringly.
mo, child, don't ask that Of you;
but will you go away with me? I
have heard that in America the law
for rich and poor is alike, and, if you
Ike it, Maggie, We will go there and
begin over again. Before you were
Old enough to understand yourself I
married you. I should have waited.
l was too old for you, but you were as
the core of my heart, and I meant all
right, heaven knows |"
"Le Marquis, madame |" and SER
want, bowling ebsequiously, ushered in
tae Marquis Of Glencowen. With a
quick motion Joel drew his wife's face
down upon his broad breast, shielding
it from view, as he said:
"You had no pity for me once, my
lord, but bear you no ill-will. Good
or bad, lie was your son, and sorrow
IS YET heavy upon you. When I came
here I lad sworn that your son should
marry her, and if he had not done it
wcul.: have shaken the life out of
him like a rat. But it was not left
for me. God has avenged the poor
mans wrongs"
An ashea rallor ovsrspread the
Marquis face as he Sank into chair,
while Joel, still shielding the face be
loved, passed from the room to COM
mence q new life with the woman he
had so nobly forgiven.
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