Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-29

Without another word he left the room.
She leaned against the wall near the win
dow, and her heavy eyelashes dropped over
the sorrowful beauty of her eyes So stand
ing and with her graceful profile taking
delicate transparency from the light shining
through the window, and the soft fulness of
her perfect form ripely figured on the white
ground of paper that supported her, never
more lovely had she looked and the SHIN
mer of her yellow hair was the trembling of
evening sunshine on the water.
Deep grief is always quiescent, and tho
deepest grief was shrined in this gentle
woman. That she was not guiltlesS only
made her sorrow the more moving. She had
erred in deceiving father and mother, in
privily. without homes blessing, undertaking
the sacred obligation of marriage. Yet how
hardly was she dealt with! how cruel the in
depreciation of deed OF faithful Lowell And
why had Cuthbert left her. How bitterly
hard that any act of his should be beyond
the skill of her hearS to construct Yet her
glorious fidelity could not hold him faith
less.
In this wise thinking, with an impulsive
movement she drew forth her purse and
slipped her wedding ring on, kissed it wildly,
and, with quick toss of her hands, fell with
face upon the bed, weeping bitterly.
This posture was she in when her mother
entered the room. The poor woman ran to
her quickly
you have come back, my darlingG Where
hast thou been all this long time? Jenny. do
not cry sony heart will break if YOU grieye
in this way. Has father been ss.-ing unkind
things to thee, my prettyi Come, come. it is
not all hopeless yet. Truly believe that
Mr.. Shaw is thy husband; and be sure, be
sure he viii return, for no man with his
beauty is heartless, and he would not have
married thee, Jenny, to leave thee in this
wayl"
She raised the girl from the bed and led
her to chair, and, kneeling by her, pillowed
her head in her bosom.
! "Oh, mother is it not too cruel that |
/ should lose my husband and be doubted nv
\ father7 Tomorrow he means to take me To
London to show him the church: for he win
not believe me without dragging me wesry
I journey. And God knows what / shall do
when we reach LONDON, for do not remen1-
/ Der the name of tf& church, nor the street
where it stands and have told him / was
too scared to take notice. And would not q
4 young girl like me be frightened, mother IN
that great place, and acting wrongly. al
though was with my darlingl"
Tomorrow does he take YOU to London
! Oh, what strange, hard mani Why. all
day you will be travelling; and cannot he
see that you have no strengthw cried Mrs.
Strangfeld. rising from her knees; and, with
a hot, indignant look, she swept out of the
room, and went to her husband, whom she
found in the act Of quitting the house.
michael, / must speak to thee What are
you going to do with Jenny! If you break
her heart you win kill US both, and that in
deed you are doingT she cried, shrilly.
! With his hand IN the latch of the house
/ door he stared at her with contemptuous
1 sternness. then with a stride made for the
| rarlor, and closed the door upon them both
Jane, subdue your voice, and speak to me
respectfully. You are the girls mother, and
viii listen to you; but am her father, and
mine is the name she has blasted. Do YOU
heed that 1t is Michael Strangfield's daugh-
I ter whom the people are talking about. Re