Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-26
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT SATURDAY MAY 2e 1sss

tN1NG DEMOCRAI. S | He took courage presenuy ana went for ward slowly. with his eyes fixed mon tBe house. until he was at the gate of ft. snd then he walked quietly to the door. He | knocked and fell back a pace. that avery window might be visible to him. erd. vhils l he stood looking first here and then there. the door was opened, and a resnectal,lv dressed woman stood forth. He could barely speak for the constrictiou | in his throat. and in quite faint voice asked if Mrs Strang1elo was within. aOh. dear nc, if. Mrs Htranrfeld has l been gone these three months, !" answered the 1 woman, looking at him with surpriss. "Wherean
 aWhy, to house in Winston Do not l you know her husband be dead. and the business sold to MT. McAndrew7n @They were friends of mine, and am just returned from long journey" And in a | wild, quick way, like cry overlapping de- | cision. he said: aAnd what of her dauehterYp "Mra Shaw? She lives along vi her mother. Her husband be dead too, ye know"
 9She lives with her mother, and is we'll. I hopea" he said, the flush brought to his face by the violence his question did him yielding to deadly white.
 Quite well, believe, sir. She's niver r Greystone They say she's known . deal O sorrow, and there's some shame in it that keeps her f hiding. Poor hearti A sweeter woman there is not truly there is not"
 She looked at him hard as she said this, the gaze growing keener and keener the eyebrows lifting to it, and something like an expression of consternation coming into her face.
 "I am MT. Shaw" he said, anticipating the question that was already parting her lips
 woman shrieked.
 With toss of the hands he turned bis head to look up the High street. "Is it known" he said, confronting her. "that was impressed in error by gang of sailorss What did my father thinki Do you know him7"
 "Dr. Shaw. of the school housei We'll by name, sir. Ye know, of course, that he be 1 we'll, and Is giving up teachin'l man hath come from some city f the north to buy the | school from him-so heerd but a week since," said the woman, so fascinated, not alone by the romance of Cuthbert's return, but by the beauty of his face, that she could not lift her eyes from him. | "Is it known that was impressed7" he asked again.
 "I cannot tell ye for sure, sir. Some talk there was, l think; but them as it went ! among were but little known to me. And 1 before my husband bought this business we lived at the white house, away down by Callow bay, which kept me out O gossip.n "Is Mir. Franklin alivei or, where can I hire coacha"
 "Oh, Mir. Franklin is nicely, sir. Will ye not come in and sit down2 And my gel shall fetch you a coach as quick as iver it'll come for thee.
 He thanked her for her offer and entered the little parlor, never before beheld by him and even unfamiliar to us, now that the | quaint furniture of the Strangfelds was gone and the simple old sea pieces
 He breathed quickly as he stood alone looking around him. This had been his darling's home Through the window, into which MT. McAndrew had let clarified glass, 1 he saw the old bay tree and the shrubbery and green stuff, amid which he used to slip | his letters to his sweetheart after dark, ap- pointing meetings for the morrow The walls around him had echoed to her voice | Her feet had trodden the ground on which he stood. Wonder was the scene of street and market place which her timid eyes had swept again and again that night when she l waited for him to come and tell her father that she was his wife.
 Mrs. McAndrew returned with . tray of l table that he should sit
 "Tm all of tremble with astonishment. sir, truly. Iris the wonderfullest thing that 1 ye should be there looking at me, and your pretty wife thinking herself widow, not five miles aXy: I've sent she gel for a minutes, sir; and if this wine's not to your relish, I can draw a proper head O beer"
 He seated himself, looking vacantly at the l , hi~ h.o1
 "You cannot tell me that my wife kne,y that was carried away to sea by press I gang?" he said presently.
 q can't own as iver l heard say she knew it, sir. But I can tell you that some trouble came upon the sweetheart after ye were missing; her father was cruel, and that she were married he would not believe. That's what were said. Then afterward it were proved by Dr: Shaw she was your wife, sir. And that broke her fathers heart. they said
 One thing reckon sure, howiver wrong b. all else say, your wife ran away from Greystone for the shame that evil thinking gossips put upon her; and her mother, aa she now lives with, told me herself that her reason for sellin' the business was because Mistress Shaw had vowed niver to como to Greystone again. after she had kissed her father, lying dead on his bed for grief"
 "May God forgive them all for wrongine herl Poor little one! Could her father look at her and doubt her7 Oh, madam, the carriage is a long while coming. This delay
 is heavy trial to mel"
 He went quickly from his chair to the
 window, where he stood while, tapping the
 ground with his foot
 @How did my father treat her, do you
 know9" he asked.
 "Why, sir, very honorably, believe, from
 all reports. An old Mrs Mead, whom some
 call mother was telling mo while back,
 that your father asked Mistress Shaw to go
 and live with him, promising to pack the boys
 home and give up the trade if she'd come But tyour lady had a proper spirit, and Mrs
 Mead, who loves her, said: How should she stay with the old man doubted her honol
 onceP Though I'll own I answered her, that
 all things considering, seeing your lady
 could not prove her marriage, as twas said
 and that you were not by, it was not what
 you might call onraisonable for Dr. Shaw t< doubt her."
 "Not prove her marriagei"
 He dropped his head and swung himself t< , the window, exclaiming under his breath: