Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-10-20

II shan sand IN the way, mother; {,
shall nsv5r trouble him"
"sIsan Bowsn, what do you m,an"
"Hs can't DO expected to marry The
sweeth cart Jane Human, and not fol-
Susan Bow wen, clumsy old Susan"
"You want to mako me SICK" breaking
into sobs; that is just what you want to
do.n
mo, don't, mother; but can't deceive
you. We have always been one, you and
/, but IL can be SO no longer Jane Human
was born for another fate. And new ,he Is
coming into her kingdom. But Susan
Bowen was made TO endure hardness, 70
live alone and eat the bread of labor. He
would not like my influence over you. He
must rule alone; can see it In the square
set of his jaw"
That's Just IL, Susan; he amt changed a
bit. Such men never do change. l can
feel the iron Ben Fielding under all this
new velvet He didn't have his way with
me when he was young and he wants to get
it now he is old. He let 10 drop that his
God must be my God, and 10 was so like old
times ii made mo shiver."
IL guess his God is made in tho likeness
of the Senator" said Susan bitterly, but
this was all she would say to influence her
mother, who kept insisting that he was
generous and kind and wondrous conde-
scending to the poor Widow Bowen. She
felt il a grievance that Susan would not
join in these eulogiums, but maintained 9
logged silence. Her sturdy, strong soul
felt q sorrow tugging at her heart-strin2s,
such as she had not known in all her years
of toll and privation. The splendid pros
though it dazzled the widows res, brought
no real Joy to that poor house. Before
going to bed Susan told her mother she
would depart carly the next morning by
the train to take home the finished bundle
of work and leave tho coast clear. The
IN ar ~ n N a n 4 W.
She did not sleep until near morning, and
then il seemed that she had just fallen into
her first uneasy nap when nervous grasp
was laid on her shoulder.
Il can't, l can't sobbed poor Mrs
/ won't have Ben Fielding IL he is to sspa.
rate us. What do 1 care for his money and
his position, and his honors, compared
with my child! And Just as like as not he
would despise me II l didn't bow down to
stay and tell him the whole truth. There
never was such one to speak the truth as
you are. And will 60 to town with the
bundle Of work"
Susan felt that her mother had risen to
the height Of the moral sublime. She took
her in her arms and gave her tremendous
hugging as sho laughed and criod. Mrs
Bowen did go to town and Susan saw the
Senator, and they had rather bad half
hour. Fielding lost his temper, and &C
CuSed susan or Influencing ner mOtnoI
against him to her great injury. And
Susan lost her temper and maintained her
right to her mother with pertinacity. And
when the Senator went away he congratu-
lated himself on having escaped such
dragon of n daughter-in-law. And Susan
for her part hated the overbearing man
worse than any one she had ever seen.
Many can rise once in lifetime to
height of the moral sublime, but few can
maintain themselves long at such q level
When the two poor women took up life
again in that shabby tenement, things
were changed. Perhaps Mrs Bowen, as Is
the way with dependent, impulsive minds
secretly regretted at moments all she had
given up for Susan, while Susan for her
part saw these feelings at work in her
mother and was wretchod. But ono day
there came to Susan Bowen an official
document which announced her appoint
ment to a 1,2O0-dollar clerkship in the
treasury. Though she hated Fielding, he
had done her this great good turn because
that generous streak in his nature was
marked.
Whom Susan and her mother went away
happy and triumphant, Milly doclaret
that strange old fairy, Truth, had left the
village, bag and baggage. H., m " y
Eceniag Post.