The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-17

than to find the work to 90, and II 1t mad not
been Tor the strengthening influence OF
Eve, Ronald would, perhaps, have been dls;
cOuraged. The month drew to close, ana
still no employment had been found.
what shall do, bright eyes" SAID kon-
aid one evening. ut seems as II there was
no place in the work-a-day world for me-
"Oh, yes, there is; only you nave ho'
found it yet. And do you know, Ronald
mamma and l have been talking over your
going to America.
This suggestion was not new to the young
man; his own heart had been giving MIN
the same advice from the very first; and
now 1t had taken tangible form. IL was
thoroughly discussed and arranged Tor, ana
Ronald's place taken in a steamer, leaving
two days before his month oil grace eAp!deu'
During all his trials and preparations,
ROnald's home-never happy one-nau
been becoming daily more wretched. his
mother wearied him with alternate re-
proaches ana entreatieS, and his friends
pited or abused, advised or laughed at MIN.
Still. the last night he was to spend under
his mothers roof lie made another effort al
II have miserable headache tonight" he
said. kiss me, mother, for the sake OF old
times"
"Certainly, Ronald, If the kiss implies that
you have recovered your senses, aud are
willing to follow out my plans Tor your wei
81 cannot give up Eve. mother. Forgive
me this"
You are old enough to choose between
US. If it is Miss SOrley, her kisses must
suffice you"
''At least, mother, shake hands"
You are sentimental tonight; thing L
have no use in the world for. Obedience is
the test of love"
We'll, good night, mother"
GOOD night, sir"
And thus they parted, never more to meet
in this Grid.
Hard MS his parting was with Eve. it did
not sadden him like the unnatural Good
night sir" of his mother. In the former
there were love and hope, and the promise
of happy reunion.
After Ronad's departure Eve waited
hopefully and happily for the good news
she was sure would come. Nor did she
wait in vain. In two years Ronald had
completed his study for the law, and opened
a small Office in a tlOurishing town In West
ern New York. For some time his practice
was small, but at the end of the fourth
year he was making more than enough TO
claim the redemption of Ewes promise.
Mrs. SOrley accompanied her daughter to
America, and lived many happy years with
the young couple. Ronald is always a warm
defender of that much-abused character, a
mOther-ln- law.
As years wore on the little vine-covered
it became the pride of the town; and Judge
MitchelPs handsome house and gardens, his
thoroughbred horses and numerous servants
are certainly evidences of au income vastly
above the $500 a year he refused to accept
as equivalent for manhood'S noblest rights
and privileges.
Ronald Is a portly, miidle-aged man now,
and Eve, though still beautiful, has lost the
early bloom of youth; but up and down the
long piazZas, and through shady arcades OF
elm and chestnut, many beautiful boys and
girls play, walk or read, uncontrolled by
any element but a wise and patient love.
For Ronald has still a sad remembrance Of
a home cherries and loveless amid all its
splendOr, of a childhood uublessed by fairy
lore or mothers kisses, and of a youth in
which everything was to have been sacrificed
for interest and ambition.
Mrs. Mitchell still! lives. If her heart ever
softenS toward her son, she never suffers to
make any sign. She is apparently as in
different TO his latter hOnOrs as she was 10
his early struggles and trials 1t is
likely even that she may Outlive her busy
Woodworking son, whose brain and heart
carry the cares and sorrows Of many beside
his own, for
The good die first,
And they whose hearts dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket.
Yet never has Ronald Mitchell regretted
the day in which he chose love before land,
and true wife in preference to 10000
Ask him to-day If he would part with even
the memory of the real life which COM
menced for him with that decision: "Not
for Gold. st Louis Star Sayings.