Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-20

you.
.'Wal, look here-dont you want sort
o nest egg We got ufty dollars laid up;
you take it on venture aid give ITO half
what IL brin g..
THANK you, Biah. Ii You'll trust rs
with IL Iii hope TO do something for US
both.
Biah went into the house, and after
so fumbling brought out canvass bag,
VIII ch he put into James hand.
Wanted to go to sea COMO ndedly my
self. bat there Mariar Jane-she won
hear ont, and turns on the water wor Is
If 1 peep single word. But farmin's
drefIul slow. but when Teller 40 a
gal, Les got a cap'n; h has 20 mind
orders So ,O Jest trade AMI Wen 20
sherrs. / think consid'aOle o, you, and
ex eet you II make it go as fur as any
body"
II II try my best. you may believe,
Biah. sad James. shaking the hard
hand heartily, a. he rned on his way
towards the crossroads tavern.
The whole village OF MaplewoOd on
Thanksgiving day morning was possessed
of t fact James Pitkin had gone o TO
sea In the Eastern Star, for Biah had felt
all the sense of Importance which the
p ssess on of st rtling piece of intellt-
call at the tavern and store on his way
1 p and make the ost OF his infor nation,
so hat by the time the bell ranJ for ser
vice the news might be sa 10 be every
where. The minisie general Gust m
on Thanksgiving day was e. get oil
po itical sermon revie ing the state OF
/ new nSand, the United States OF
| America and urore, Asia and Africa;
but it may he doubted IL all the airs OF
all / csc C ntinen pro uced as mu h
sensa ion among the girls III the singers
seat that day as did the news that James
/ itkin had gone TO sea en- a four Years
voyage. Curious yes wore cast on Diana
P,tkin. and many were the Wills and
specui atoms as TO the art might have
| had in tic move an Ger ain he 10 ked
! paler and & aver than US, al, aud some
| though they could detec traces of tears
on her cheeks. Some notice. In the tones
of her voice that day, ~ they rose In the
soprano, tremOr and pa hos never re-
marked befo e--,he unconscious utter
rance of n new sense OF sorrow, awakened
| in soul thes up to this time had never
known gr.sf.
The letter had fallen on the heads OF
the itkin household ike a thuniorbolt.
Blah came in to Breakfast and gave 1t to
| Mrs. itkin, say ng that James had hand
ed him that last night, ION his way over
10 take the m dnight stage to Salem,
wEego lie was going 10 sail on the Eastern
Ssar to tay-nO doubt he's oil TO sea Ivy
this time. 4 con us.d sound OF eNcla-
nations went mp aroand the table. while
Mrs. Pitkin pal AMI calm, reai the let
ter and thcn passed it to her husband
wit. out Il wsrd. TIC bright, fixed color
in Dianas ace had meanwhile" been slow
ly ebJ,ng away, till wi h cheeks and lips
pale a ashes she hastily rose and left tho
table and went 10 her room. A strange
new terrible psin-a sensation like being
choked o. SmO'h 'ce Ia rush f mixed
emOtlons-a fearful sense Of some mex
orable, unalterabie crisis having co re OF
her girlish folly -oYerwhe med her.
Again she rene l.berei the deep tones OF
his good by, and how sha had only MOCK
ed at his emotion. lie sat down and
leaned her head on her hands in tear
less, con used sorrow.
Deacon Pitkin was at first more shock
ed and overwhelmed than his wife His
yesterdays ak with James had had M
such ser,o 8 purpOe. IL had been only
tn escape va We for his hypochon
driac iorebod'ng Of tle future
and not NJ was farthe: from
his thoughts than having IL bear
lrui. IL am CHI decisive movement on
he part # his son. In fact. he secre ly
was pYoul Of his talents an his sch0l.
arSh p, and haS set his hear OH his gong
through college, and had no more serlous
purpose in what he said the day befo .
than the general one Of making h 8 on
fee the straits and itiicElties wa, put
IN for HIM. Dung men were tempted at
llege To be too expensive, he bought
and to forge, VIVA IL cost their pa eutI at
h ne. II short the whole thing had been
merely he passing or of a raro ysm Of
hypOchondria, and he Ia air ady he un
TO be 81 is ed that he sh ,uld raise the In
terest IN .Eey iha ear without material
difficult The let er owed him too
kernl the depth of the su !oring he had
in let on his son, and when he had
Rad t lie cast sort of helpless, question
ing ok on his wife, and said, after an
intery al of silence
well, m Their
There WAS o netting quite pathetic in
the pealing look and voice.
We'll father, she answered In sub.
dued tones; all We can do now Is to
leave it.
j. AVE II.
Those were words often In that woman s
mouth, and they expressed that hab Of
her lie which made her victorious over
all troubles that ab Of trust In the In
finite will, tat actually could and did
lea every accomplished event III his
hand, without murmur and without con-
let.
II there was any one thing in her uni
formly self-den ed life that had been a
personal ambition and a personal desire,
IL had been that her son shoald have
collie education. 1t was The center Of
her ca thly w.shes hopes and efforts.
That wis had been cut of In a moment,
that hopo had sunk un.ter her feet and
now only remained tn her he task of com
fOrting the undisciplined soul whose I'M
guided uttei ances had WI Iut ht the mis-
chief. It VS. 10. the first me that,
wounded by loving hand in thi, dark
struggle OF life, she had suppressed the
pain of her own hurt that he that had
wounded her might the better forgive HIM
self.
- ear father she said TO him when
over and er he b AIMED himself for his
yesterdays harsh words to his son, don I
worry ab Mt IL now; you didn't mean II,
ia es is good boy, and he II see 1t right
at last: and lie Is in DDS hands. and Ne
must leave him there. lie Overrules all.
| When Mrs. pIikin turned from her