New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-21
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Mite navann an Janet rule back to Tive city.
y,hitiae tho iorinf hat rttee,lpl thrnh aust Whem
Moyt ant npnai9 VEGA 80 iUih thpm aitpt thr htpt
,ia,, with 1sptan ltiian. AIT Nhs Mrrsaihlp te
knaw what hea. Captain Hutton WeAld Nis't the
.attaga npnni5 Wha Waa "a sHhp hastp w nave
eyat, lasai yeht Va proiept Mary hAa pfepesan mat
thoy should spend ho daN ~ ha grave ef tfpus hnaf
tho aatt,go. tbs carriage NAa slpoho' WIN pN"lS
appliance of comfort aud they were u ENJOY their
irst day alone.
q. men and women whose life has fallen into the
o,nu,ounlace have We forgotten the delights of the
arst day alone with they one you most loved The
beauty OF every shrub. the wonder IN every stone!
Althou IA the month was January 1t was spring IN
Georgia The lovers wandered under the trees Mary
lstenng TO "reminiscences OF Dennlss youth ana oc-
casonally telling some OF her own dreams 1t had
seemed n brief waiting. when along the road at
rand pace came horseman.
.Fatherw and Mary grew pale. How often
shc had watched for her father but never as now
with nervous terror struggling against love- Den
nj, did not know that her father had driven her ont
into the storm, nor that from her fathers eyes
,n,rdar looked on his child That interview was
covered by the charity OF his daughters love;
hidden even from herself by dowcrs of tenderness,
pty and prayer But while he did not imagine to
what depths the fierce unrestrained nature of Hilton
had fallen Janets warning Janet's terror, ere in
Denns's mind.
aIct me see him first, Mary" Dennis plead. But
Mary shook her head. She knew that she alone
COZ ii touch her fathers heart As the horse stopped
before the broken fence where once had hung the
litte gates started with horror Could that bag
gard, desperate-ooking man be her father z" lie
has suffered" she whispered, her breast lled with
tender pity at this wreck of what she had so loved
looking neither to the rightnor left Hilton threw
himself from the horse, strobe up the rough path
way and passed into the house.
IL viii go to him" SAID Mary.
II will go with You. Mary.'-and together trey
crossed the soft earth, entering the mouse ic" hio
ments after Hilton. e.,,-......, .to
ruin of what had been 30 dear Yet she shliueIeu,
when even her light step echoed through the empty
house She walked quickly to the door OF her bed-
roonI whence in low means came her lathcr N"iGc.
At the threshold she stopped where once beloic no
had paused to look on hrr. Then she was praying
for him And now for him. too, were .re yi pn""S
He WAS standing by the window leahing ast hi
the BROKEN sash His eyes were iiXed on somethhg
he held IN his hand. Mary sGbhed aloud Wheh Li,o
saw il. Her little Bible He had given = to hrr
and had written in il. To my dearest emu, ron
father He did love her she had always nenrt
Without speaking with hardly SOUND II l'o SUI
rustng of the dress which she had ch9'en y iip9.
resembling those she used to wear slG ast WITH
her arms, sobbed Dear latter, We coi''' 0''N ~
you . Ia ,,,rod bio
Very slowly, Ike n man in dlcam. he turned hls
| eyes from the book TO her. And then-as II some
snake had stung him-he tore away those tenuer
aims threw her violently from him ana larry
aYou've come back Accused wiper, that cast
aside your fathers Lowell Once spared your me-
| but now" ,.f. .;,,a
Dennis ihnd not an instant to lose. JUST n time
he inshed aside those farce hands thnt caught NJ
Mary's throat Surprised 10 SEQ this man VINO sto9h
| between him and his daughter. Hilton diew hack
He passrd his hand over his head ~ II ho had bccp
eieepinp aud suddenly wakened. hal not quite col
lected his thoughts