Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

The woman'e face suddenly flushed
and then grew pale.
From Lady Gilmore!" she repeated
as If in great confusion and surprise.
Yes; the poor lady has been very IL
nigh unto death-and she has repented
and confessed the great wrong that she
and you did to her innocent son. -
A half cry broke from Mrs. Brewster 4
! pallid lips, and she grasped the back of O
chair near her as if for support.
"I-I-do not understand, - she fall
tered out.
eyes, my daughter, you understand
too well!'' said the priest rsproviugly
and solemnly; "the young man have
just seen is no son of yours; IS, in truth ,
the eldest son of the late Lord Gilmore
and for twenty-four years you have
carried on base deception.
"lt-was my lady, gasped Mrs.
Brewster.
Yes, she yielded to vain and fool
ish temptation, and it has recoiled upon
her own heart with great bitterness.
The son for whose sake she robbed her
frst-born has married against her will :,
and altogether led life far from credit
able to him. But she has repented of
her sin, and pray my daughter that
you also will confess and repent having
aided her in grevious wrong?n
Mrs. Brewster seemed quite overcome.
She was strong and heaithful woman
of her age, but she now sank down on u
chair as if unable to stand.
What did she say?" at length she
falteTsd out.
Then Father Hayward told her the
whole story; told her of the little empty
anf lin in tsaf av L.
which bore the name of Gerard Clifford
and how this had been opened in the
presence of himself and a magistrate;
and he told her, also, that Lady Gilmore
had written letter to her, with her
poor cramped hands. of which he was
the bearer.
land l have one for her son, al :"
he continued; land she wishes him to
go to her at once, so that she may bless
him, and learn to love him before she
dies.
Mrs. Brewster. sat pale and silent as
the priest detailed the overwhelming
evidence of the fraud she had assisted to
"Can they" she asked at last, edo
anything to me?''
Legally you could be punished; but
the case is unlikely to go into court, as
the young man who unjustly bears the |
name of Lord Gilmore, would have no |
chance of winning it against the direct |
evidence of his mother and yourself -
But II did not give mine?'' said |
Mrs. Brewster slowly.
My daughter you are old Unanswered |
The priest sternly; "dare you face the
Inevitable moment of death: the awful
Judgment beyond the grave, with lie on
'our lips, where no lie will indeed avail
,ou2'
Mrs. Brewster was visibly moved by
hese solemn words.
Do not hesitate between good and |
vii, - went on the father earnestly;
for long years have you lived a life of
in and deceit, but you have time to re-
,ent and be forgiven. Cleanse your con-
cience of this great burden, my daugh-
er, and when you lie on your deathbed,
10 able to look up at the Holy Symbol of
ur faith, not in fear and trembling, but
n faith and trust. -
Still Mrs. Brewster hesitated. For
wenty-four years she had carried this
ecret in her own bosom, and spoke of it
none. She had confessed to her priest,
ut like her lady this sin had never
assed her lips. She was fond too, of
er adopted son, and from his delicate
abyhood to mis- stalwart manhood had
'atched over him with the most devoted
are. 1t was like rending all her past
fe in twain, to give up the child she had
cared even to his own mother.
''They will take him away from me
ley will take his love away - was piss
lg through her mind, and the thought
as full of bitterness.
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