The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-05
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'hA3. JCorvtontedl
1hiss Lost % a Struggle for a Name,
By MRS. r. B. EDISON.
CHAPTER XyI.-CpSrISUEp.

n CHAPTER XyI-CoNTINUED. z
Ralph caught the paper neryously and
STROBE to the window. reading it as he
went with deyouring haste. And this
was what he read:
"DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER, AND DEAF
Rorbx as Re cd g9n tns ssst
forever, without telling you how love you
how I have loved You all these long, d RI
years, and now. at this last moment more thar
ALL But cannot come into your home. ht
weight of NV own unworthness and sin would
be more than could bear in that pure atmos
phere. i have been sitting in judgment or
myself to-day. since COTS hand came between
me and my wicked ambition and fer pride
o. why lid He not take my life instead of his
have asked myself this question a hundred
times this long. terrible afternoon. | dare not
ask your forg veness-I dare not ask Heavens
II can only pray for the pity of both. In my
fierce pride determined to wrest from fate
what il so cruelty withheld-my name and for
tune. To this one thought have devoted my
life; for its furtherance have sacrificed home
your home-loye, honor, self-respect-and
only for the interposition of Heaven. soul and
body as well. stand tonight as one stands
on the , edge OF a dark abyss; by whose SIDE b.
seek to excuse my conduct cannot. hope
some time, TO dare ask God to pardon my folIy
and crime-I cannot vet. s.I
Il shall come so near that IL you knew you
could hear my he Irts fierce beating-it beats
so wildly: shall touch nv lips to the easement
where some time your hands may fall, and
Goodbye, forever and ever, :.
.r It broke off abruptly, the last few
words ending in a scrawl, as if heart
and strength had alike failed.
Father. mother" Ralph said, grave
ly. a. shall find her if she anywhere
on the face of Gods earth, if it takes
me till am a gray old mani" he cried,
with sudden sharp pathos .E
Not dare to ask our forgiveness,
poor childn' Mrs. Anderson said,
bro&enly; "as if we ever held any other
feeling towards her but love. o, Ralph,
YOU mus, find herr'
II will find her if she is in the world.
mother" the handsome face white and
grave ana reSoIute. ''Anu iatner, moJneI
If she will. shall bring her to you as
my wife. She shall have the shelter OF
my heart and nv name against the
world. if only she WILL
God bless you. Ralph. in your
search. and be sure of the welcome that
waits anxiously and longingly for her.
g-even as for you, my son, Ben Adder
son said. solemnly, as he bale his boy
goodbye an hour afterward at the depot
lat Rockford. AID >
The station-master TO whom they
had applied had given them this infor-
NATION: ~
When he came 10 open his Office a
Slight young girl was standing by the
door. She came and bought a ticket
for Chicago Immediately the office was
open. He noticed her particularly be
cause her dress was wet and drabbled
about the bottom. and he thought she
must have come some distance through
the mud, and wondered little, ,or
ashe was looking i'll enough to be in bed,
with her heavy eyes and palljd fac.
The train had been gonetwo hours OF
more, and another did not leave till
after noon. Well, there was nothing to
do but wait, wait, WearieSt and bitter
est Of all work under the sun is this-to
wait To wait when heart and brain
are running wild: to wait when the soul
and blood e on fire; to wait when the
yspalses every throb is 3 pang of fierce.
impatient pain.
GANo 8 81 CHAPTER XVII. . 100 "
az "A quiet pretty little place it was.
where, ster a long life of tossing hitli.
.er and thither on the sea, and sailing
Unto almost every port under the sun,
Captain Dick Waite had, with the odd
fancy which seems. to possess seat 'ap-
IA ms, settled finally down on farm
Not that there IS anything odd in one S
fancying farm. but that a man whose
wbeie life had been frfi Of stiir and IN
-cident should choose such opposite
life as quiet farm in an inland State,
where never SO much as the faintest
scent OF the seas sat breath could
come. But here he was, ney rtheleSs,
and apparenfv contentsthis moorirg4
Said nloorings consisted. beside 3preity
farm. house and forty acre farm With
all the acres cries, of fair-faced, soft
voiced. blue-eyed little German girl
or rath T, woman, IS she has been Mrs.
Waite tn ee whole r. ears. 4 hrlt sspsking
very girlish still with her fr sh face and
simple ways-and a couple of the wild.
est, sweetest, plumpest, m ost mischisv-
Gus d most utter y unmanageab-e hit
tie fellows enc ever saw The brace OF
boys were Just two years oh-no. very
old you see. nor yet very large or
strorg. but they ruled the entire tstab-
lishment, wi hout m re thag half-trying.
and as for the gallant Captain who had
ruled the waves, " treai a the quarter
deck, very king. for third OF CEN
tury-why. the highest thread of the
siiken yellow hair could bind and lead
him W ithersoever the pretty captors'
fancy willed. q, {
There had been ittlefal of snow
day or two before. and these remorseiess
tyrants had taken afancy that their slave
should draw them whithersoever he
went on an abominable little sled, which
was IS vicious as it was ugly. AMI
threw rather to their.deligit. Ste riders
at the slightest provocation. The rail
road ran little way from the farm. and
the depot was the perpetual. un-
sat SIZED wonder of these small philoso-
piers Hither they must be drawn
punetua ly upon the arrival Of the
trains, or war was at once declared,
and hither their most devoted drew
them for the th I'd time one day. and as
he mentally resolved for the last,
though they had no suspicion of the
proposed rebellion of their subject and