Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11

think their greatest blessing was the
| power both possessed to lift themselves
&C such times above realities, put their
| eordid life far away, and live again In
their past, or make a new world of poetic
and artistic imaginings. Somewhere in
| Greenland they were resting for their
| brief holiday, when harsh voice on the
other side of the great oak tree reused
| them. Only too we'll both knew those
| hard tones, as Cuthbert Holmes said
'Shell marry me quick enough when
ask her; and as to her father, I'm not
quite such fool as to burden myself
with sick man. I'll take May off for
wedding trip, and keep her till the old
man - The voice was growing faint
In the distance. and they heard no more.
But Paul Grierson's eyes were fixed
upon the white, fearful face lat his knee
with such terror that she cried:
"Oh, forgive me forgive me! 1t was
for your sakew ,
For my sake, May! Would you have
married that-that brute to help meI
Child child would sooner strike you
dead than give you up to him p
Il know, said she, with a choking
sob. But he was always talking Of
what you ought to have, what would do
you good, Gs if he only wanted the right
To provide every comfort and luxury for
you. On, iather: how can we be thani:-
!ui enough tHu; So" heard him?"
Hue Paul Gr.ocson was too deepv
Oh sd yet to rea. 2 Lays escape.
- could not be .ung FOR me- dearest,
hc aid holding ler hand in a close
clasp; "pnly Il few months of ease and
rest; but ior you lifelong agony.
Promise me, promise me, May, that you
%.ll never again yield to such tempta-
ion !or y sake"
u prrulO-e We may suffer but it will
2e toEr nar. On, to think that he would
ave parted us, and left you to- And
% lhuddrr finished the sentence.
Dut even then, in her relief and pain,
Hay gave no hint of those visions OF
re under the river that had been the
team of release. Surely Heavea haa
saved her once and some way would
or"n for the future-the future the gli
30 MED by the fathers lie. Beyond
1al separation, the dread of which
u ver lett her. May had no thought of n
u;ure.
Dusk was gathering when Paul Grier-
ON rose feebly and set his face home
ward. When the cottage came in sight
athcr and daughter stopped short in the
uad. There being little to tempt burg
Hr-, they had not fastened doors or WIN
,ows, and evidently some one was in the
i'use Their" was a light in the sitting
1om, and waea they entered it table
Hts spread sucn as they had not seen
"r many long days. The service was
uilar, the Old-fashioned china that old
rs. Grierson mad cherished since her
'|a wedding day, the well-kept damask,
'' small silver spoons and forks, But
where had hroiled chickens, mullins.
-olien preserves, huge red Strawberries,
81 i \
rom Who had heaped the sugar bowl
ilieG the cream pitcher replenished The
hutterdish? Who was coming with a
irm step from the kitchen, bearing
riumphantly a coffee pot whose IRA
,auge aas waited upon summer breeze
greet astonished noses?
- ali .aG., q b-DNn bearded man, @
Jroad-shouldered man, with great blue
eyes full of mischief, and yet softening
ddly at the sight of his host and hostess,
Hs II tears were not far away.
May gave one ecstatic cry.
''Paul!' and would have rushed for
ward, but he waved her back, deposited
the cotfee-pot with u dramatic flourish
Gni then opened his arms. she nestled
thcrc like u bird who has found her nest
st q" storm, and looking over her head,
Pau! held out one hand to his godfather
MY little wife," he asked, and knew
pv Paul Grlerson's eyes and Mays quick
-'D that the hope he had cherished in his
ong exile would soon be a reality
Come y he said, presently, "eat OF
my supper. l knew you would come
home half starved, so l foraged with
pocket full OF silver. You know | have
natural genius for cooking, and it has
been cultivated to full perfection in our
explorations.
But how did you find u.s." asked Mr..
.arierson, when the two were seated.
"Came direct from Paris. May wrote
?ou were coming to Hamilton, so to
hamilton I came. The natives told me
where Mr.. Grierson lived
But Paul did not mention how the one
native he had interviewed had described
TO H,.L the dreadful poverty in the little
rotta-c.
"Mayl' he commanded. "eat more.
and stop drinking coffee. You are the
same old coffee lover as ever, see"
This is simply delicious" she cried.
Nobody ever could make coffee likn
ours"
But we will train our slaves" he an
wered, maiestically; 'for, May" and
.ir laughed like a boy, what news do
ruu think found in New York;
4 cannot guess"
MY grandfather Is dead"
well / thought you quarreled with
him because you would become an
artist"
TOO true, yet he relented and left me
sll his money. We are rich, my dear.
1--WE she echoed. "You are rich
''It is all in the family, my love, for
am going to have wedding in Hamilton
tV morrow"
Oh Paul. she gasped. at is too
,Oon"
"Ihen I'll be off for Central America
again, and give you two or three years
more to think about it.
''Dare to go!" she criod, wondering il
her singing heart was the one so full OF
misery only few short hours before
But before she slept she made her t IN
fession, and was forgiven, and Paul had
his way about the wedding.
He had been urged to haste by Mr..
Grierson's ghastly face and racking
cough, but the Angel of Death passed.
them by. With money used lavlshly ia
physicians and remedies, with the most
loving Of care, his children nursed PAUL
Grierson back to life and health, and the
studio in the great house, wherr there
are baby voices now to greet Paul and
iay, is as much for the use of tho elder
or'ist az for his son and pupil.
and May, Is as much for the use of the