Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-03-27

were written, then other explanatory
letters which he thought would have been
answered in pity and forgiveness, and no
answers came to any of them.
Instead of investigating the silence he
construed it as meaning hopeless resent
ment. He was alone in London-London
in November-in a little coffee house in
Drummond street, Euston square. A few
cabmen and two or three railway porters
were eating hurried dinners, which were
brought them by jaded maid of all work
in those intervals in which she was not
fetching their porter from a neighboring
tavern. Hastily finishing n wretched meal
and counting the little money he had, he
took his sachel, and in a few minutes was
In Euston station and on his way to Liver
pool. From Liverpool he worked his way
to New Zealand Two years after, on a
starry night, at a sheep station, the yearn-
ing for home overcame him. He had saved
little money, and took the first ship for
England. Before reaching Briarcombe he
learned all there was to know of his fami-
ly. His letters had never been received.
The friend to whom he had nclosed them,
and whose Intervention he desired had
sailed for India shortly after his depart
ure. His mother had died of consum ption
year before his return, still believing in
him and praying for his home coming.
Shortly after paralysis, followed by dis
tressing mental failure, took his fathers
life.
The rector had no means beyond those
arising from the living, and the failure
of his mind had caused the household man
agement to devolve on needless servants
| Bills accumulated and every vestige of
personal property had fallen under the
hammer. Without resources he had joined
the strollng players. The young man,
avoiding recognition, had now come to
look upon his old home, to kneel in the
churchyard at the graves of his parents to
sit screened in the church gallery and start
at the new voice in one desk, and melt at
the sonorous amens of poor old A bel Brown
in the other. Watching an opportunity,
| he had entered the rcctory grounds. The
name of his pony was still over it's stall in
the stable and the mead of a fox, which
had been killed in the gorse behind us,
was where we had nailed it on the door.
Then back by the cricket field and the
trout stream, under the rookery, and up
over Brarcombe hill; then last look
at the dear old village before trying Ex-
eter or Plymouth, or any other place
boasting II Theatre Royal"
AS he paused, the Ginning of the bells
once more fell on the stiffness of the val
ley, and their spell was again upon him
and upon me. The early days came back
to me-my poverty, the devotion of my poor
old aunt, the drear little room in Philadel-
phia. the attenuated tutor and his cotton
enshrined bones. saw the three portions
of the temporal and the wings of the
sphenoid that were to have borne me to the
eXacting labor and patient self denial
which constitute the chief distinctions of a
country doctors life. And these visions
brought to mind the better onnortuniries
which Door Young men have to work nm to
professional life in our own country than
they have in Europe. Among other fan
cies it seemed to me that the moor
rcctor's voice was speakinp To me in
the tones from the tower. and that the
dead French Nomau's praver-thp nr,var
for the return of her bov-was from
bling in the echoes that were diving ON the
beach. Then sweetlv from the bells came
the history of Easter. that pracious festival
of the church which sheds neaca unon tho
world in proclaiminp the risen Christ
remembered that of old Easter SUNDAY
WINS called the Sunday of .Jov and that in
addition TO its hospitalitv il WAS a sooson
for the liberation of slaves for ,vt.nding
comfort to the afflicted and holm to tho
moody Could tbere be notbino i, tbis
Easter tbot may lipbten rho life of tho
man so vouno and Gu weary haside mo,
Was there nothing in this Easter thar NAV
charm nv heart with n fresh sensation Of
pcace9 PERTAINS there may he something
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York, n man who has recently been sue
cessful i'm more than one imnort,,nt contest
in tLc courts He live. in n GOOD honso
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