The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-08-29

A lady had been TO see him--his " wsfe
with their little girl.
They were stay ing at the new hotel
on the Point for few weeks, but she
had gone back again, as there was to
be ball at the hotel that evening that
she did not want to miss, and she had
left the little girl to stay with him, as
the doctor said he better remain where
he was for the night.
She is handsome woman-Mrs.
Carlisle, said neighbor who had come
in to help. But she don't seem to care
the least about him. I didn't hear her
say one kind or hardly pleasant word.
She scolded him for going out alone in
Ohe boat, when he did not know how to
manage it said it would be so awk-
ward to have to go to the ball without
him, but that she did not intend to
miss it for all that, and when she was
gone his little girl just crept up to him
and put her srms around his neck, and
said' mamma didn't even say she was
glad you we're saved, papa, but am,
and then he drew her face close to his.
and knew he was crying.
So the first result of my successful
effort was sadness and tears, and as
sat there strange apprehensive sbiver
ran through my veins, and for
moment was disposed to let him com
plete his visit without even attempting
to see him.
Then the feeling passed, and another,
equally strong took it's place, and in
another hour I was up aud dressed,
and tottered weakly along toward the
room where the patient was seated,
He had his little girl on his knee
a lovely child of about seven years
but as Ientered, he looked up with a
glad smile of recognition and welcome,
and said to the child,
This is the lady that saved papa's
life, Gladys, darlingl and jumping
down, the little creature ran to me, led
me to seat beside her father, and
then throwing her arms around me,
laid her soft cheek against mine, and
said:
l shall always love you so much for
bringing back my papay
Ere long knew the story of his life
the marriage that had been made for
him, and into which he had been urged
by the combined pressure of parentsl
authority and outside influenc, only to
to learn that he had yoked himself for
life to woman for life TO woman who
had not one thought beyond the
prestige and increased social advant-
age the union would aecure to her; that
in heart, ia mind, in tastes and feelings,
they we're as far apart as though the
poles had separated them
Mr.. Carlisle stayed with us three
days; then, at his request, coupled with
her own most earnest plea, little
Gladys was allowed to remain awhile
longer, much to her mothers evident
relief, and enjoying, unrestrained, the
freedom that the hotel life could not
afford her; and with us she was as
happy as the day was long, and every
day brought her father to see her
Then it was that the madness came
upon me, and knew that loved this
man-this man, handsome, gifted, but
fettered for life to one totally estrenged
from any interest, OF one thought in
common with his-a woman thorough
ly selfish, seeking her own pleasure al.
ways and everywhere, to whom he was
merely the purveyor of the luxuries
that filed and formed the sole aim and
purpose of her life; aud looking into
his eyes, | read the same madness
therel
1t came out iuto speech as we stood
together on the day he came to say
farewell. Their stay at the hotel was
ended; his wife desired to return to The
city.
am going, Edna, he said, but viii
come down again in a weeks,
must see your face, and hear you
voice, though fate has so cruely divided
our lives Oh, could wish you had le
me drift to death, rather than live t,
r bring this agony upon us bothl Good
bye, darling! must say it once, for
am leaving my heart, my very life be
j. hind me!
He almost crushed my hands in hi
9 and was gone, while sunk doy in al
| agony of such bitter shame as I ha
never deemed possible.
a Full we'll ! knew he would com
again-I dared not think what tn
@ issue might be-what barriers of ster
o resolve, of duty, of honor, might nc
d yield before the lava tide that SCENE
eating into their foundations.
u Then I reached the apex end pinnacl
1 of madness, for l resolved TO condon
'r one sin by committing another.
1t was the second day after his d
"a n parture, and a second was brewir
il when | went down to the beach, an
70 as before, indifferent to Peters war;
a ing, got Into my boat and rowed ou
turning my course toward the whiI
IN pool.
N Fit emblem of my own passion,
le would receive me and wash away Il
10, life that could no longer eonter
he against the evil that threatened it.
reached the outer edge of Il
10, Tapidsi il caught the boat, then Tw
~ whirled madly around, a roaring soun
ly ed in my ears, and then
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