The Grenada gazette., 1889-03-14

"You are old enough to know youi
own mind. my boy, and rich enough To
make your own choice. So | will say
nothing OF possible objections or COM
ments. But think l will telegraph to
your aunt, That poor child will need
home and a mother for long time
before you can protect her."
Thank you! When did you ever fail
to be my best friend" was the CRATE
full reply.
They entered the house then, and
sat by the open window talking of in
different subjects. almost unconscious
| ly straining their ears to catch every
movement in the next roon, from
which the invalid's choking, labored
broath could be distincty heard.
In the small hours they caught au
indistinct murmur, and then low,
clear voice answered:
Let me be sure | understand you,
father. You wish me to send for Mr.
Dunning?'
Again the thick, muttered voice,
aud again the clear one answering:
"Poor-leave me pooro Oh, father,
can YOU think would ever touch that
money? Restore it, for my sake, as
well as your own
Again the low mur.nur and the an.
swcr;
II will send the message at once,
Mr.. Duntorth will take it for me"
Charlie started up at once. but Mr.,
Dunning whispered:
III it will not be too late. let them
think | come in answer to the message.
And send for your aunt
A nod was the only answer, and not
five minutes later Charlie was speed
ing to the Easthayen telegraph sta
tiOn.
The dawn broke soft and clear, and
the Invalid. for the last time, looked
out upon the rising sun.
When. at noon, Mr.. Dunning re.
turned from the station with his wife
leaning upon his arm, neither Mr..
Porter nor Lulu suspected that the
lady alone had arrived by the last train.
With a face from which all anger
was gone, and only grave, tender pity
remained, Mr.. Dunning received the
confession of his old cashier. and the
restitution of the bulk of the stolen
money.
1T leaves Lulu penniless," the sick
man said, in his thick, indistinct tones,
land she has not relative in the
worlG'
II will not let her suffer- was the
quiet reply.
And then. leaving his wife to comfort
the Sobbing daughtcr-to support her
in the last trying hours Mr.. Dunning
again Joined his nephew.
Don't think me very hard hearted
If send you away he said You
may trust her to Us, and later she will
understand
II was not easy for Charlie to leave
Lulu in her first grief for her father,
bat he saw the wisdom of his uno.e's
advice and accepted it.
And when, in the early fall, he came
once more to New York. and met tbs
gentle girl who had been his aunts
guest all summer, he saw the dreadful
gloom was gone from her fair. sweet
face, only softened sorrow remaining,
His love suit was not soon granted,
for Lulu felt l1ecnly her fathers crime,
but she loved Charlie and her love was
deepened by the knowledge of what his
fOrbearance had done for her, and fol
her dead Mr.. Dunning had long be-
fore told her why Charlie was at East
haven, and why her father had never
been arrested.
And love and gratitude. united with
Charities pleading, proved irresistible,
and Lulu became Charles wife, none
the less faithful and true, for that cloud
that had shadowed her life after her
fathers crime and illness, while Char
lie Dunning and his uncle and aunt,
who loved Lulu like daughter, never
regretted that tender pity that led
them TO grant mercy when justice
might have been exacted in full meas
ure. Anna Shields, in N, Y. Ledger.