The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-30

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In private sittiug-room within the sta
ton hotel at York, from which the lofty
gray towers of the far-famed Minister were
dImly visible through the misty atmosphere,
a young girl sat crouching over brightly
burning fire toward the close Of stormy
October day.
Her plain. tight-ftting dress of soft cling
ing black revealed slight girlish figure,
and served to throw into strong relief the
extreme pallor of her face, on which the
dancing freight played fitfully in the
gathering dusk. The hollow depths in her
cheeks and the heavy, dark rings under her
large, gray eyes, which shone with fever
ISL luster, told not only of protracted
night watching but of terrible mental
trouble.
But though her worn appearance had
dimmed it could not wholly efface her more
than ordinary beauty Her dainty head of
crisp brown hair, reclining on perfectly
modelled hand, her pure profile and the ex-
qusite delicacv of her skin, combined with
the graceful slope of her shoulders to pre-
sent an attractive picture which wanted
nothing to complete it except the round
color that usually accompany youth and
happiness in women of her type of beauty.
If only the shadows that had too early
fallen on her young life were lifted, and
time were given for her girlish form TO
ripen to its mature development. Winifred
Denison might yet racover more than her
former beauty, of which only a poor,
shadowy resemblance remained.s
There was somethi 6 infinitely pathetic
in the stony expression that sat on the face
of one so fair aud young, as she sat with
her eyes fixed on the glowing Goals. For
Winifred Denison was still young-she was
barely 20-too young, one would have
thought, to have known much OF sorrow.
Yet she had been called to bear the shatter-
ing of life's brightest Illusions and, what is
worst of all to bear, the loss Of faith, whilst
standing yet on the very threshold Of bud
ding womanhood
As she sat by the fire, unmndful Of the
rain that was being driven furiously against
the window panes by the wild westerly wind
that roarsd and shTieked dlsmally round
the chimney tops, she was living her life
over again, and wondering what it might
have been If Capt. Denison had not crossed
her path.
She was thinking, too, OF the future, with
wearied sense of heart loneliness and of
the futility thai has crept into her life leav-
Ing her like a goodly vessel hopelesSly
stranded and cast away ON its first voyage;
and with the thoughts that came to her
there WAS born new resolution in her soul
that impaired @ new gravity to the white,
set face
Hmifred became so absorbed in her re-
Elections that sho did not notice the opening
aud closing of the door, nor the mufiied
tread Of a mans footsteps on the soft pile
carpet She did not know that she was no
LONGER nl0pa until 10 hand ae Ibid bor
shoulder with gentle pressure and her hus-
land bent to kiss her.
When she became aware of his presence
shudder passed through her slender form;
ana as Capt. Denison lightly brushed her
cneek with his mustache sue reused herself
from her long reverie and turned away dis
uainlQIIy from his cares, raising her hand
as though to shield herself from his touch.
AS you please he said, breaking the
sience, and hlnging himself into an arm
cnalr and Selling the poker he vented his
irltatatIon on the unoffending Goals, which
ue sent flying until the ruddy blaze illu-
HllnaUeQ The room. This done, he settled
DOWN to watch his wifes face, as though he
mind
During the past few days Winifred's atti-
!ule toward her husband had occasioned
INN much perplexity. Hitherto she had
oaen plastic as clay in his hands: but since
uau detected new accent in her voice when
cue spoke which was seldom, and an avoid
anGe OF MIN which chafed him.
tHey were returning from Scarborough
" CAelr nome in London when the child was
aheh alarmingly ill. Capt. Denison adj
b mustered several doses of brandy from his
, n,sA 10 the invalid, and would have con-
niue uiuea The Journey but Winifred insisted
80 'neIn leaving the train and hurrying
so .u9 SIauon hotel, where apartments were
ouIel aud medical advice obtained 1t
r%S Tue uTst time that she had opposed her
81 "tl against her husbands, but she had in
way. s"'0
ro;o uI Tue mothers prudence and the ply
r rrS'au skill proved unavailing. What ep-
p ra-eu 20 be simple attack of Group which
al 10 give way to treatment devel-
btro ou more serious symptoms. A hard MEM
81 10 formed IN the little sufferers throat
- 49, "a three days the end came, wheD after
us mothers arms.
my that afternoon the little body had
si IUu conveyed to its last resting place, ami
sitt jo .Ie funeral Winifred had remained
r,Ct~s before the fire, thinking over the
rG9I and revolving plans for the future.
o1 No. Her husband was employed more
Efisedoiy 10 his tastes in the well-appointed
''i u! ara room Of the hotel.
Iuured had rejected all her husbands
giIi.-P'o ~ rouse her from the apathetlc
de,ti, sS' INTO which she fell on the child's
Dbl She felt that Capt. DenisonS con-
sy1.- te5 had hollow ring about them. His
Tci .aIny was not even ''the vacant chaff
wo- --1lsaat Tor grain.h The child's birth
ir1 Inv XIV eicome to him, seeing that its COM
v+ -,,eerIered with his plans, and now that
pIsJ as t9kel from then he was secretly
hiTeaigfu I' though ne put a strong curb on
fron, ~ ne could not conceal his satisfaction
bis ''t us wife. There was bnoyancy in
uSsa vo l as ne endeavored to comfort her
ear - sig' los that grated on the fine deli
at,..,o,ll.IheT ear and caused her to repsl his
/, ~ TO soothe her grief
nina pesau to dawn on Capt Denison's
ols ~. a. ne sat watching his wife, and vari-
viii we circumstances required to his mind
ver. i il1r pointed emphasis, now that they
atjo,,i t .s pretei by the stony look of reso-
Aer fr,. ma he detected for the first time on
as ,-cq that the chlld's death had dug a
ash. toeOween them that would not be
ban orldged over. But he was not the
Rs0t,r,o.tt trouble himself about questions of
and presently, pulling out his