News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

Ii this child IS yours. L too have 4
claim upon him. But you may be mis-
taken, she observed more gently.
q can soon determine that point, .
he went on. "When I took him from
, you I marked the initials j. H on his
baby arm.
While he was endeavoring to roll NJ
the child's sleeve, Mrs. COmstock eyed
him distrustfuIy. This may be a trick
to extort money from me, she thought
Suddenly the tramp leaned forward.
kissed the small, thin arm, and burst
into sort of wailng cry.
"Oh, Jack. my poor little chap. 7
did no intend to cause you so much SUI
fering -
'Hush - said Mrs. Comstock gently ::
1.-The servants i'll the dining-room may
hear YOU
Then the maternal instinct in her
breast told her that this man who. in her
girlhood days had so grossly deceived
her, was not playing her false now. She
bent over and laid her white face against
the suffering one of the child.
The tramp raised his soiled hand. and
was about to lay it on her head, but
withdrew it again, saying:
Believe me, [ regret this more. infin-
itely more, than all the wrong-doings of
my life. After the divorce was granted
you, and I abducted the-child. partly be,
cause 1 loved him and partly through
revenge, l gave him to the woman
Davis, and shortly after was obliged to
absent myself from the city for two
years. When I returned she had disap-
peared. [ made inquiries among her
former neighbors, and was told that the
child was dead
1T was Jack Davis-Ted's brother
who died, whispered the sick boy. who
family comprehended that he had found
his father at last.
4 knew Of your second marriage;
envied the peace you had found and de
/ termined to keep the child's death a
secret, hoping thereby to cause your
heart a pang of anguish when remom-
bering his uncertain fate. My wicked
intentions have rebounded upon myself.
God knows l would give you all the
miserable years [ may vet liv. could I
undo the cruel deed. viii take him to
an hospital, and when he RECEIVERS, ]
will, for his sake, try to redeem myself."
"No. said Mrs. COmstock, '|yOu shall
not take him from me again. Stay a
moment; I will tell my husband all and
/ see what he Will suggest"
ooh, Bessie spare me the shame of
meeting the man who occupies the place
in your heart I once filled, " he pleaded
sadly.
Love for Jack Holbrool had died out
years before; yet she pitied the trem-
bling Outcast who had straycd to her
door-pitled without being able to con-
meet him with the handsome, dashing,
young fellow who had won and trampIed
upon her girlish affections.
My husband is the soul of generosity
and Will gladly help you to begin life
anew. Hark = she went on. assuminga
listening attitude, 81 hear his foctstep
now; he is coming to see what has de
tanned me so long"
Mr.. Comstock entered the zitchenand
was greatly amazed when in a few h1lr-
ried words his wife explained the state
Of affairs.
DO whatever You please mydarling, .
he said, q viii consent to anything that
viii make you happy"
Jack Holbrook looked at the woman
who had once been his wife with bitter
paug of regret; then at his own tattered
garments and a flush of shame rose to
his cheeks. At Bcssie's request he car
ried the sick boy upstairs. An hour later
the familyphysician arrived and declared
the child to be dangerously i'll with
pneumonia. Through the long hours Of
the night the discovered pair watched at
the bedside of their dying child. Who
shall say what Jack Holbrooks rehec-
tons were as he reviewed his past life of
folly and sin that had led him step by
step into the lowest depths of degrade
ton
In the midst of his most acute suffer
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was at rest An b0u,. or two before he
died Bessie raised him i'll her arms say
/ ing:
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