The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-03-08

IN Jn6 IQC1ltn Oh lNaJs lc%44s " WOuAssAs
lay dying in theittle cottage which used
to stand on the old main road just
outside the then limits OF the town of
Lynn Kneeling by her bedside was a
boy of about ten years, and ON bis head
the wasted hand of his mother rested,
the fingers twining gently through his
hair. She was speaking this mother
who was passing away-and the boy
drank in every word. She told him in
feeble and broken sentences his little
sister had no one but him to look to for
protection, and she asked him to promise
that SO long as he should live that pro-
lection would be given. Satisfied by the
unspoken Pledge in his eyes as he looked
at her. for she knew what he was, she
spoke of the comfort he had been to her
since his fathers death; of that father
who had been taken away SO suddenly,
and of her own joy at the prospect of
seeing her husband once more. Her sor-
row, too, at leaving her children dwelt
In her mind at times, and then he tried
to soothe her by telling her he would be
brave and true. And SO with a prayer
for them on her lips she became silent,
and the boy knew when he once more
looked at her that the ears that had never
been deaf to him were deaf now.
The two children Willie, aged ten,
and May, aged not quite half a year
were not left penniless. Their father
DR.. William jackson, had accumulated
a little money, and their mother had
owned property when she married.
Their only living relation, brother os
Mrs. jackson, lived in New York, and
he at once asked them to come and live
with him. For i've years Willie went =,
the New York schools and May grew
up into as charming little girl as one
could find. Then Mr. Truesdale died,
leaving his money to his nephew and
niece, and Willie made up his mind they
would move back TO Lynn. Here they
lived in the house Of their guardian,
Judge Black, and Willie in due time
went to Harvard, and, winning his de-
gree in arts, passed into the law school
He was singularIy old for his age.
Even as a boy he was grave, self con-
tanned and generally silent, and he cared
little for the afnusements which filed
the time of his fellows. He was exceed
ingly fond of reading, and fairly de-
voured all the books he could find.
Studying hard, he stood we'll up in his
classes at all times, but it was not until
he got into the law school that he really
showed the stuff in him. To the mind
Of Mr.. Jackson-it was curious how soon
the use of his first name was dropped by
his friends-the law assimilated as its
natural food. The dryest OF dry treatises
possessed an interest for him that moth
ing else had. He used to astonish his
guardian by reading the code for pleas
ure. For Judge Black was one of those
easy going men who drift forward in
life's race rather than push, doing their
work respectfully and living in a
thoroughly respectable way.
However, the judge knew man when
he saw one, and he was only too glad to
offer his ward a partnership as soon as
he had passed the bar. 1t was not long
before the new firm Of Black & jackson
began to attract attention in the courts.
The senior partner was without particle
of jealousy, and was only too glad to
give the credit for the manner in which
their cases were presented to his earnest,
laborious and painstadng junior. After
year or two men said, with shake
of the head, Lynn could not keep the
''young judge" as they called him; that
in the natural course OF events he would
go to Boston and seek wider field for
his abilities.
ALI this while May jackson was grow
ing up into the most winsome little
creature imaginable. She was utterly
unlike her brother She was capricious
exceedingly pretty, as full Of coquetry
as she could live; whimsical, but just al
charming as a sweet, bright, lovablt
American girl should be, and she loved
| her grave, stern brother as she loved nc
human being. From time beyond
which she could remember nothing he
had been father and mother and brother
all in one. He was never too busy tc
listen to her wants and wishes, never
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