Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-07-31

door, and looking backward at the staircase
to make sure the tailor was not listening.
"Leaving father and mother for goodl"
said she, leading Jenny to a chair, and push
ing the candle Close to her that she might see
her face. @Whatever are you doing that
fort"
Because father suspects me Of speaking
falsely" answered Jenny: "and I cannot ide
with him to be thought sinful, and spurned
at by the people"
aAnd for that your are leaving homel" ex-
claimed the old woman, who showed no
symptom of sleepiness. "And you are going
to Winston9 What to do there, Miss Jennyi"
my cousin, Bridget Lloyd, lives at Mar
pies, and the coach passes Winston at eight
in the morning. To MARBLES I am going, to
ask Bridget to give. me shelter until I can
find my living"
"Well. indeed! And do ye mean to walk
five mile tonight Why, ye says t. coach
doth not pass before eight, and where will
ye stay till it comesF"
II have not thought" answered Jenny with
a heavy sigh. sBut I will not stop in Grey
stone to be Knocked. Oh. Mrs. Mead! to.mor-
row morning father would take me to Lon
don to show him the church where I was
married, and this I cannot do. What then
will he thinka But it is not only because I
cannot prove myself my dearest ones wife
that I am leaving home. Because father
thinks me a wicked sinner and a liar I am
running away, and because all the town who
have not a fathers heart for me will think
worse things of Jenny: Oh. may God lend
me wisdom to know the right thing to do,
and forgive me the sorrow I this night cause
my motherW
| GI,o hit hor lin crs,A1eu r. ropkroj,. how koo~n
for she feared that the sight of them would
move Mrs. Mead to hinder her desperate reso-
luton.
word, We shall have something to mend your
spirits WITH" said the old woman, briskly,
| and entered her bedroom, whence in a few
moments she returned, with a gown and
shawl on, and, going to a cupboard, produced
| a little flask of cherry cordial, Of which she
obliged Jenny to swallow a glassful
ut is a strange thing for you to do" said
she, resuming her chair and twisting her
scant gray tresses into a knot at the back of
her head. "Doth your cousin, Mrs. Lloyd,
know you are coming to herf'
mo" Jenny answered. II did not make
up my mind to leave hcMe till father told me
to get ready to quit for london with him in
tho morning. I should fear to be with him
II We could not find the church. II he does
not think me truthful then I am a sinner to
him, and not fit for his house; and that Is
why "a am leaving him forever"
Her eyes flashed as she spoke, and the hard
look Of her mouth might have reminded Mrs.
Mead of the deacon at his sternest But the
anger melted away, and she cried piteously,
You will tell my poor mother that you have
seen me, and why I have left herl Fathers
harshness to me is breaking her heart, and
what will she do when she finds her rretty
one gone9" and she paused again to battle
with her tears.
"Miss Jenny, if ye are wise, yell go home" "
said Mrs. Mead, nodding her head. "Why,
whatIl folks say when it's known you've room
awayi Sure enough they'll call ye q guilty
wench, and you would not like that"
"They will call me that If I stay-why
should they not, If father thinks it7-and
never could I go into the street, nor meet
human eyes, with this shame upon me!' she
cried, despairingly.
"It's hard to know! it's hard to know!n
groaned the old woman. "Would ye wish
your mother to hear where you are7"
"Nor she answered quickly. $50 that
IN living and with friends, as you must tell
her, Mrs. Mead, she will not despair. But
no one must be told where I am-not one,
Mrs. Mead. Promise me that! Swear It'll"
"Tll swear it if you please, Mrs. Jenny
replied Mrs. Mead, sympathetically giving
the girl h"r wifely prefix. "But before ye
make mo take an oath just think awhile. II
l swear, they may drown me and not get thu
truth. Suppose Mr.. Cuthbert-"
"Ah" exclaimed the girl, with a short
passionate cry, "f he should come-why
why, Mrs. Mead, you would tell him in
stantly; he would be eager and mad to fine
me, and I to be with him. 0, heavenly
Lord! if thou wouldst but give him to m,
nowT she cried, raising her clasped hands
while her voice died away into a soft, ex
quisitely musical plaintive note.
II don't like this business-truly I would
rather have no hand in it" said Mrs. Mead
slowly turning her face from side to side
"Thy father would come and burn my hous,
down if he knew I had helped you to leav'
the town"
"You need not help me, I will go ava
now. Mrs. Mead, and leave you to your rest.
"That you shall moi" cried the old woman
jumping up and laying her skinny hand OF
Jenny, who had risen. "Sit down, sit down
my pretty. Why, how long will it take "
to walk to Winstons Two hours, will it
And SO you shall come to the village a
three 4 the morn, and have five hours II
count the daisies in afore TIL coach comes
Sit down! sit down! YEN not leave thi
house yet a bit. Use warrant"
"But l will be on my way before the ligh'
comes and the people are up" answered
Jenny, still standing.
S ye shall, but not afore the light comes
Sit, mistress. Lord save your heart, I'll
easier nor standing, and I for one niver ca,
think on my feet. Nowheers like bed TO,
thinkin', say I, and then you're fiat. Yell b.
changing your mind, 1 doubt. If yell sit ant
ponder"
ado not say that. Mrs. Mead. 1have al
ready left home, and it is as bad as If I wer,
q thousand miles of. will not go back, in
deed. Bid me goodnight, and be sure IN,
heart is warm to thee for thy kindness"
"Ah!" cried Mrs. Mead, forcing her, bu
not u%ntenderly. into her chair, rye come from
an obstinate father, and arguments, as w
always said, Is wasted on stitch. II ye NEAR
to 60, I'll not stop you-and who should know
best but youi But the job needn't be wors'
nor it Is. I'm one" said she, going to her cup
board, "as loves crature comforts. Craturt
comforts" she continued, producing a couple
Of cups and saucer, a loaf Of bread, som.
eggs, and a strange looking vessel of tin ii
which was some tea, made precious by the
price of 1t In those days, us a true voice O
consolation to the afflicted, to my way O
thinking. Niver did I attend a buryin' or *
a nurstn', or help to lay a body out, but frs
do duty on an empty stomach II it's but {
me have it, I says, before I 20 to work
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