The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-12-20

Sohny Aau ineang What sne SAID, while
Harry had become so accustomed to pour
out his wrath in torrent of words that they
had grown to be almost without meaning.
70 Il was great shock to him when, At last,
he reused out of his moodiness and went up
to their room, to find no Jenny there. He
could not believe that she had gone out of
the house, and no searched il through and
through before he really came fa,e to face
with the terrible truth. But it was so.
Jenny had left him! But where had she
gone? All that was a question to which
time alone could bring an answer.
In his sorrow and distress he thought no
more of the stranger with whom no had
exchanged cards. Ali the time he could
spare from business was spent in search Of
his lost Jenny.
But one evening, after his return from
his fruitless quest, card was sent to him,
bearing the name of,
HAROLD SPAuLDINo,
"San Francisco, CAL"
He looked at it an instant in puzzled sur
prise. Then he said to the servant:
'sBring the gentleman to my room"
Soon steps were Heard ascending tho
stairs, and then the door opened, and the
stranger entered.
Harry rose to meet him, looking at him
in dazed sort of way, as though he had
been confronted with the ghost of his lost
happiness.
The stranger did not wait for Harry to
speak. He drew from his pocket a minia-
ture, and held it toward him.
"Did you ever see any one who looked
like that ?" no asked, with smile.
Harry gazed for an instant in blank sur
prise. 1t was Jenny's facet Then, with
burst of passion, he flew at Mr.. Spaulding
like wild beast.
How dare you this insult me ?" he ex-
claimed, fiercely. is it not enough to
have done me such harm, without coming TO
gloat over me?"
The expression upon the strangers face
was one of blank surprise mingled with in
uignauon. ne was u inrge, powerful man,
ard he shook off Harrys grasp as though it
had been that of a child
"What harm is 1t to show you my
mothers picture, young man ?" he asked,
"and to try and find out if your wife is not
her daughter, and the sister of whom I have
been in search SO many years? If there is
anything wrong in trying to find relative,
I have yet to learn it,"
''Your mothers picture!' said Harry
NJ thought it was Jenny's and that she had
given it to you" .zI
: Oh, see" said the stranger, "and you
were jealous of an old man like me You
might have had better sense Don't you
see the gray hairs ?" and he ran his hand
through his hair, which was thickly sprinkled
with Times silver ''Why, man, youth
admires youth But You don't mean to say
that the young woman with my mothers
face, is false as well as fair? If so, she's no
sister of mine no daughter of my spotless
mother ?"
81 am fool miserable fooll" groaned
Harry. "Jenny is an angel of goodness,
and have lost her through my mad folly.
Let me find her once more, and she'll never
have cause to sorrow over my unreasonable
jealousy again"
just at this moment another visitor was
announced 1t was plain, respectable
looking woman, whom Harry remembered to
have seen coming TO the house with vegeta-
bles for sale from her farm.
Che looked at him with sad sternness
upon her rugged features.
Your wife has been with me since she
left her home," she said, land yielding to
her prayer that would keep silence as to
her whereabouts, have done SO until now.
But her fever is at the crisis, and the doctor
gives little hope of her wearing through ID
So have come for you"
AS soon as possible Harry was at Jennys
bedside. The fever had passed, and she lay
like marble statue. scarcely breathing.
Harry fell upon bis knees by the bedside,
and during the long interval which elapsed
before it was known whether life or death
should conquer, he prayed for the young
Fife to be spared with a fervor which was
new to him in any devotional service in
which he had heretofore been engaged He
also. then and there. made vow If jenny
nved never again TO yield TO his besetting
sin of jealousy.
Jenny did live, and Harry kept his vow.
Henceforth, no cloud came into their mar
ried life.
Harold Spaulding was indeed the brother
who had been lost for so many years out of
his sisters Life. He had been wanderer in
many lands, but had returned at last wealthy,
and with a desire to spend that wealth. for
the benefit OF his kindred; but Jenny was
the only one of the family left. After her
mothers death she had been adopted into a
family, and had taken their name. SO, had
il not been for her resemblance to her moth
ers picture, her brother would have been
unsuccessful in his search
II went rather bungiingly to work, he
once said laughfngly to Harry. a. fought to
have put in my claim to relationship at the
first sight of Jenny, instead of following her
around to make sure that I was not mis-
taken. Butnot being Of jealous turn myself,
It never once entered into my mind that I
was causing trouble in the family"
st has cured me Of my folly, though
was the serious answer, and Jenny shall
be the happiest little woman in the whole
world from this time forth, if can make her
so in-Mary Il. AoGat.
LOVE TRAGEDY m EIGHT LNEs.-A