St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

pose the sadness, the sorrow, the dread
calamity and the downward, downward
course of the next twelve monthsl For
one whole year Philip Darcy drank fear
| fully. The tears and prayers Of his
! friends had no effect to restrain him; no
| shame, no suffering, no degradation
| Startled him from the road to utter ruin.
| Late one evening as Philip was wan
| dering the streets, not very badly off, q
friend took his arm and led him home.
| As they entered the small reception
room they heard voices in the drawing
| room beyond. One was that of the
hostess; the other Isabel Marwood's.
| Darcy knew it in an instant, and.
| having heard his own name spoken by
the lady of the house, he grasped the
| arm of his friend and held him still.
And in moment more he heard ISa-
bel Marwood speak these words-they
| were burned into his brain and he could
not forget them: Eyes, rejected him.
And wasn't it good thing for me that
L did so? Heavens! what life for
wife to live. Yet l pity him. do GER
tainly pity him."
Philip threw his friends arm from
him and rushed from the house, and
daylight found him walking not the
streets, but quiet, secluded crossroad
away out IN the country.
'She-She-pitied himl She had been
fortunate in rejecting him! Heavens!
What life for wife to liver'
AS he kept repeating the words over
and over to himself great horror of his
present life rose within him. He re-
solved to be strong again, and sought
the shelter of his friend Archie Cor
don'S house.
And thus it came to pass that Mary
Gordon became Philip Darcy's nurse,
for he was very ill-almost at deaths
door-as result of the course he had
pursued; and but for the tender, watch
full, tlreless care of Mary he might
never have arisen from his couch of
suffering.
And now, as the couch of suffering
became a couch of blessing, he knew
which was the true love and which the
false. Before he had become strong
enough to leave the house the playmate
OF his childhood, the friend and COM
panion of his youth, his deeply and
truly beloved Mary, had promised that
If he lived and needed her she would
never leave him more.
Another thing happened while Philip
was an inmate of Archie Gordon's
dwelling-as acceptable as it was unex-
pected.
A man whose paper his father had in
dOrSed for several thousands and whick
he-the father-had been obliged to
honor, had been away in the land of
gold, and had gained a new fortune,
and he had now come to make the son
full restitution for all the father had lost
ON his account.
So when Philip and Mary were mar
ried there was snug sum of money III
the bank for rainy day.
Two years passed and man came
out in society with 'grand splurge"
Arnold Fitz Warren he called his name.
He carried things with high hand and
cut wide SWath. Isabel MarWoOd fell
into the trap at last. Arnold Fitz War
rem must have believed she had money
OF he never would have bothered him
self with marrying her. AT all events,
he proposed and was accepted, and the
marriage speedily followed.
Just one week later on an officer made
his appearance with a writ, and took
Arnold Warren's (the "Fitz' had been q
mere fancy of the momenD splendid
equipage for debt. And a few days
after that, while Isabel's husband lay in
the drawing room drunk, another officer
came in with warrant and took the
man himself.
Isabel Marwood never saw her huS.
band again, but she occasionally saw
Philip Darcy, and saw his happy. bloom
ing wife; and the time came when she
looked upon his bright-eyed, beautiful
children, and, thus knowing, the years
crept upon her apace. What her
oughts-what her feelings-who shall
say?