The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-04-29
WHOLE NO. 2O75.
SOMERSET Pa, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1891.

whose feet were trembling on the con-
fines of another world The manor car
riage met me at the station, and before
long | was whirled through the familiar
gates past the tiny, gothic cottage in
which my eyes first saw the light, and
up the elm avenue to the great stone
porch.
II scarcely seemed to me that ] was
awake as l walked through the
tiled hall, and up the polished marble
stairs but came back to reality again
with shock as the servant opened
door and entered the apartment where
Estelle awaited me. Involuntarily L
stepped back. Could that be the same
healthful, robust girl who had always
seemed to scorn the very idea of sick
ness
"Oh /. how changed the wan face
was.
@she saw me, and motioned her at
tendants from the room. went to her.
So you came, Margery? ? 1 hardly
thought you would. l am changed, am
not? So are you but you are only
more beautiful, while +
She cast pitiful glance down upon
her shrunken arm and hand. Did you
understand what wrote to you about
Nemesis? thought you wouldn't. Well,
am dying of quick consumption. There
is no hope. Margery, did you ever sus-
pect that what l told you about my
brother was not true p
II started violently, then controlled
myself with strong effort, for | saw
that it sgitated her to speak. She went
on
go II ,Cas not true told you q false
hood. Ny brother loved you, and you
only But I wanted another for my sis
ter, and determined within myself that
you should never reign as mistress in
the manor. counted en- your unsuspi-
cious innocence, and knew you would be-
lieve me. Things worked into my hands.
Nv brother went abroad with the con-
viction that you never loved him, and
broke your engagement with him so that
you might be free to unite yourself to an
other he went from his home broken
hearted, sorrowing man. I, his sister,
deceived him to further my own desires.
She stopped suddenly, and pressing
handkerchief to her lips, took it away
covered with a red stain.
"' Do not say any more I exclaimed.
1 forgive YOU for what you have done.
If that is why you have sent for me, rest
assured that all shall be forgotten.
go Not So she said. 1 wish to repair
the mischief l have done. Open the
door"
81 did 50, wondering what she meant,
and there stood David
"He had heard our words, and 1 saw
by her face that she had been aware Of
his presence. Entering, he caught me
| to his heart.
"'My Title MargeTyr was all he said.
Then leading me to the bedside, he laid
my hand in his sisters, saying solemnly
'EsteIle, it was through you We were
parted, and I know that it is your wish
that it shall be your hand that re-unites
US again
"Ah how noble he looked All the
days lin which, though thinking he was
false, had yet hungered for a sight of
his face rolled away as Estelle's fingers
closed over mine, and she joined our
hands
"'Margery,' she said, are you sure you
forgive me for ali the pain have caused
you to suffer?
GAS pray God to forgive my sins I
answered, solemnly.
with those words look, such as 1
shall remember when come to die, came
into her eyes, and like tired child she
leaned her head back upon the pillow.
''EstelIe did not live long after that.
l sent for my mother, and she was in
valuable in the sick room, with her
strong, tender-touch and motheriy ways.
So surrounded with loving, plying min
istry, the once, worldly girl now changed
and humbled by the chastising hand Of
God, passed from this life to the one be-
yond.
"Oh, girls" said grandma, "it is fifty
years ago to-day, when on his birthday
your grandfather led me as his bride to
his ancestral home
"How the bells rang how the villagers
rejoiced and how proud were mr. dear
parents
'And, dears, good and noble as your
grandfather was to me then, each year
we have live together since hss only
drawn US nearer to each other; ours was
true marriage"
Grandma stopped TO wipe away tear,
snd Belle looked down, thoughtfully
upon her cleaning solitaire; while |
from my seat at Grandma's feet, watched
grandpa, who had been an unseen listen
er to bis wife's last words. He waited
till the tear had been chased away and
then coming to her side, with all the
courtly, old-time elegance which not his
gray hairs, nor his eighty years, render
less imposing, he lifted her white, wrink.
led hand to his lips. Then be turned tc
US and said
my dear, let me give you the end ol
your grandma's story
"When man finds woman, pure as
snow, perfect as tried gold, and loving
and afectionate, it is easy to be good and
noble and with such a woman for hi:
) wife, it is his own fault if, as the years &c
by, each one does not find him happier
than before"
The Doctor and Postm aster.
Were talking about case of seriou: