Daily Republican., 1884-11-28

seoluEiOn, shrauk from returning TO tie
world again, his daughter resolved that
some portion of the world should follow
her into his solitude.
He could deny her nothing. The
house was enlarged, repaired, deco
rsted splendid grounds were reclaimed
from the surrounding woods and richl y
cultivated III srmy Of workmeu were
employed. q carriage drive WAS made 10
and from the road, and Of course out.
sfders talked busily and loudly Of such
. sudden change, everyone finding
sObething to say about Mabels ex'
travaganns and Carlis'e's fully.
They paid little heed. Guests ar.
rived, and the place resounded with
merriihent and pleasure. Carlisle went
coming 81 emtd az IL II had given htm
new iits a...
| - BuS alas his second dream of hap.
niness was briefer than the fret before
the year was out he discovered that
MsbAl had = lover
q" No hing very terrible about that.
you will say. A beauty. and eighteen,
why should she not have? But 1t was
not to lover, in the abstract, that
Carlisle otjec: ed Is asher moth
er's fate A. we'll as be mOiher's name
had fallen 70 Mabel's lot)--ih Was the
lover whom her heart had chosen.
A cousin, on her mothers side. A
young man bearing the hated name OF
Dorm, and save for his own industry,
penniless. Carlisle bad planned great
things for her, with her beauty and his
wealth, Rpd was furious over his disap-
poibtment.
Had she been a. like her mother In
temper ~ che was In fortune. all might
have been we'll but she had her faith.
er's nature, their encounter was like
that of flint and steel, and tho sparks
Of rage, and pr ie, and passion formed .
DIRE shas soon des troyed their happiness.
!, For, without Civ ing her father time
to relent, Mabel abandoned her home
"a suddenly ~ she had sought 1t, and
fled to her young lovers arms.
Car Isle made NO search after her
When, three weeks later, q letter an
noupcing her marriage and (woman
:. like) imploripg his forgiveness Ant
blessing came, he put 1t aside and nevel
answered q word.
The guests departed. The servant,
II (sAve two or three) were discharged
3 the place fell back TO It's old du lness
/ year after Mabei's flight the house he
coming had made beautiful looked lik
, a corpse, from which the bright warn
!, spirit had departed.
j Nothing emained of its ap Glen
t glory but the name the lille gossip
had given II. Tbat chung fast. No on
D called it anything but Carlisle's Fol
. y: T HST; ,.,r, wen. b,. Rune,
. Carlisle lived alone, aud made no sig
Of what he must have suffered. He ha'
q grown older and more feeble; NOR
j taciturn and silent, too, avoiding speec
' with any one-a sad sight 70 see, the
. say the lonely, failing, aged man,
q whom life and love, through his ow
Q mad TEMPER and folly, had been mad
Q ono long, long DISAPPOINTMENT,
I'll "At last, one winter evening. Mabl
came; ~ suddenly ana ~ unannoun'
!, ed as heretofore, but Otherwise ho'
: differently. No maid, no carriage nov
!. A pale, tired woman, plainly dresse
!, in black, dragged herself wearily u
- the hillside and came into her father
: room and knelt down at his feet.
Knelt down, poor soul, for pArd On
u Her babe was dead, her husband lyin
y sick and helpless. In my mother
name-he is not Of her blood sh
moaned-' let him not starve 2
=. $50 humble-she who had been 4
'olproud. Il did wrong, she sobbet
i but oh, father, father, l have bee
,. sorely punished
ie "Ar,i he spurned her. In his II
4 sane ba rid of the man who had take
IL her from him In the first rage Of seeir
j. her thought 80 low of whom he ha
u bern so proud, his babe her choose b
~ tween him al her husband once 10
no ali.
III And she rose up silently, Stage
% irg little from weakness.
go God forgive you = she said, hop
y. l.ssly, Al d passed out into the night.
-: :" 1t WAS winter and the snow was {
the ground. Probably he did not rea
- - ize that he had driven her out. An no
" later, when the servants brought hi
VI word, excitedly, that q woman hi
no been picked up--dead-outside Ii
~ gate, he uttered q scream of agony:
10 " My child My child ! And
:. murdered her ? and fell down writ
=, ing at their feet.
70 He never spoke again that sho
-, had killed him. When Mabel reco
III cred from the swoon their ignoran
had thought death, and went to nuI
aS and succor him, he turned great lovi
GU eyes on her and smiled and as 8
", raised the white head to her bosom q,
kissed the ale, cold lips, his spirit .
cd away.
" "She was the sole heiress Of
..n wealth, and lives to-day In far
az az city, happy with her husband q
NC fam lily. H-r name Is still, like
an mothers, Mabel Dorm ; and the love
iae ruin you saw in the woods today, Is
VI that Time and Decay have left Of &C
isles Folly"