The Irish standard., 1890-03-08

fess that, both in this instance and in
some others that have met with, this
has not been my experience. ! have
known men, and especially undivided
men, who were as jealous of the afeo-
ton of their friend or master as any low
er could be of that of his mistress; and
who has not seen cases OF the same thing
where parents and their children were
concerned? But the lower one gets in
the scale of humanity the more readily
this passion thrives; indeed, it may be
said to come to its intensest perfection
in brutes. Women are more jealous than
Nse:s mall-hearted men are aGco Jeal-
Gus than Jnoso u aarger mind and wider
sympathy, and animals are the most
Jealous of all. Now, Hendrika was in
some ways not farremoved from animal,
which may perhaps account for the feroc-
ity of her jealousy Of her mistress at
lection.
Shaking off my presenticaents Of evil,
I entered the center hut. Mr.. Carson
was resting on the sofa, and BY him
knelt Stella holding his hand, and her
head resting on his breast. I saw at
once that she had been telling him of
what had come about between us; nor
was sorry, for it is a task that a would
be son-in-law is generally glad to do by
deputy. .
sCome here, Allan Quatecman," he
said, almost sternly, and my heart gave
lump, tcr I feared lest he might be
about to require me- to go about my
business But I came
s'Stella tells me-" he went on, 'tthat
you two have entered into a marriage
engagement. She tells RE also that she
loves you, and that you say that you love
her."
II do indeed, SIR" broke in; II love
her truly; if ever woman was loved in
this world, love her."
81 thank Heaven for it" said the old
man. Listen, my children. Many
years ago great scr-cw and shame fell
upon me, so great sorrow that as
sometimes think, it affected my brain.
At any rate, determined to do what
most men would have considered the
act OF mailman, to go far away into the
wilderness with my only child, there to
live remote from civilization and its
evils. did SO; found this place and
here we have lived for many years, hap
PLY enough, and perhaps not without
doing good in our generation, but still
in a way unnatural to our race and
status. At first thought that / would
let my daughter grow up in state OF
complete ignorance, that she should be
Natures child. But as time went.on I
saw The folly and the wickedness of my
plan. / had no right to degrade her to
the level of the savages around me, for,
if the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a
bitter fruit, still it teaches good from
evil So educated her as we'll as was
able, till in the end knew that in mind,
as in body, she was in no way inferior to
her sisters, the children of the civilized
word. She grew up and entered into
:womanhood, and then it came into my
mind that / was doing her q bitter
wrong, that was separating her from
her kind and keeping her in wilder
ness where she could find neither mate
nor companion. But though knew
this, could not yet make up my mind
to return to active life; I had grown to
love this place. dreaded to return into
the world had abjured- Again and
again put my resolutions aside. Then
at the commencement Of this year I felt
i'll. For awhile waited, hoping that
might get better, but as LAST realized
that I should never get better, that the
hand Of death was upon me"
ssAh, no, father, not thatp Stella said,
with q cry.
Eyes, love. that, and it's true. Now
you will be able to forget our separations
In the happiness Of a rev meeting, and
he glanced at mo and smiled. Well,
when this knowledge came home to me
determined to abandon this place and
trek tor the coast, though well knew
that the journey would XII line. should y
never live to reach it But Stella would,
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