The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-12-16

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Gay nc saw my misery. We werc-cnd to
my remembrance always had been-poor, but
il had been boy my father would have
possessed thousands year never wondered
that he hated me, that my mother mourned
and fretted from morning till night; they had
brought me up to. feel guilty of crime, and
] did feel it in my Utmost heart. It was no
marvel that, when Andrew asked me to marry
him; I looked upon him as an angel Of deliv-
GRANGE. loved him with AN intensity which
amazed and frightened him. Il was in vain
he tried to make me sober and reasonable It
was in vain Inc told mo that such worship was
wrong and foolish, that it gave him no happi-
ness, while to me it must bring disappoint-
ment. could not listen, and at last wear
led him He said little about it after awhile.
but he went away and once more my life was
dcsolate He said be would como back. but
no never did. lie wrote to me often, kind,
tender letters, but they chilled my heart; and
then one day he wrote to tell mo that it must
be all over between u.s. He told me how he
had strivcn TO hold fast by his old love for me,
but he could not; tho nero effort panied him,
the thought of my passionate devotion filed
him with dread. He could never return such
love, he could never endure to have Il law
isbed upon him; once for all he would give it
death blow; when his letter reached me he
should 10 married. r
II had another lover then, Janet and al
most hated him, but before many weeks were
over became his wife. He lowell me always,
but VIC quarrcled. / could rot pretend 10
love him, and he grew reckless; our homo
was miserable, and within a year he died.
was too i'll to know what happened for a long
timo after that. Strange faces passed before
INC, strange voices spoke kindly words of
pity, and once every day it seemed to me that
Andrew came and stood by my bed. When
at last woke to reason again, you were be
side me. Oh, how loved you! How pas
sionately I loved youl You seemed to rue to
be all the world, and You saved my life!
any husband had not left mo in poverty,
bad no need to work, and spent my whole
life in watching over you niadc no friends,
for / cared for none. forgot tho miseries of
my fathers house; forgot my quarrels with
my husband; forgot oven my love for An
drew, and was scarcely moved when heard
that death had visited his home as we'll as
Dline, and that he was indeed desolate, for his
vito had died and left him childless. Three
happy years passed away almost without a
cloud. You grew and throvc. Livery day
seemed to my delighted eyes to give new
charm, a new beauty to my treasure: and
then in tho midst of my joy you fell i'll. Day
and right, night and day, watched by your
bed-nay, Janet, give me no thanks; 1t was
selfish Lowell 1t was all in vain that doctor
and nurse argued with me. / would not
leave you. 1t was fever and must run its
course, they said. II you should recover, my
strength would be needed when you could
know and call for me; but would not listen,
and one night as I sat beside you oil the room
grew dark, and knew no more. Whom re-
covered l could not rise from my bed, but
implored with passionate tears to be taken to
you. Then some one came forward and sat
down beside me and took my hand, and saw
that it was Andrew. 1t gave mo no surprise
to see him there dimly remembered that
had seemed to SEQ him before when was iii,
and FOR the moment his presence Gained
me. ~ 9. .Es..+.--s
Mary he said, in his old, quiet tone, III
you do not do as tell you you will die; and,
what is more, the child will die too
II sprang up with scream and struggled
to SO to you. My child, my childr cried.
"'She is not your child-she is minc,' he
said, i'll that calm tone of truth which had
pierced like sword of ice into my heart.
Yes, she is mine! Listen His quiet eyes
controlled ME, his quiet words subdacd me.
When you were very i'll, dying, they
thought, my name was often ON your lips,
and they discovered and sent for INC. On tbs
same day child was born to each of us, and
my wife and your child died. "Wc might
have hoped for her if her baby lad lived,'
said the doctor; and / gave my child to you.
Can you not bear what have borncP
ooh, Janet, my child, his words were heal
ing, and tho sorrow that from that hour I
triedto bear was taken from moi"
At first when mother ceased speaking, the
world, and love, and lifo seemed to me to be
blank and hollow, but In few moments Il
rose from my scot and kllceled at her knees.
'Oh, mother, dear-my father.7 ,...
"He died long ago. Janet, do you love
mel'
"Thon, as we kissed each other knew that
in oil our lives of happy love dear mother
and ] had never been SO near together.