The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-20

4 1T cOuldnt De expected or you, saio
the old woman. $50 young auAA real pretty
too. But love you for loving my Fordy
so. guess we'd have got along real good
eff it had been the Lords will you should
| marry him."
Anything will startle people already over
/ wrought.
A foot upon the path, touch upon
the door caused these two women to cry
ont, to clasp each other fast, but Mrs.
Wayne arose and lit a lamp and opened
the door to Dominic Thawler, who had
preached in the rickety little building in
which she worshiped for thirty years, who
| had married her to her husband, christened
Herford and prayed over his coffin.
| Its good of you to come, dominic" she
! said; "come in," and led the way to the
| parlor, a tidy room, little close with dis
| use.
| "I noticed, Sister Wayne" the minister
said without preface, that you keep
mourning on your shutters still Why do
| you do it?"
| ''I couldn't tell you SO that you'd under
| stand, dominic" she answered. 81
couldn't tell any one that hadn't been a
| mother"
| "Take the black ribbons Off your shut
ters," said the preacher; keep Christmas
as Christian this year, Sister Wayne"
my Christmas is fasting and tears. +"
said the widow. Can you remember the
day you stood here last and expect me to
rejoice when Christmas time comes round ?
Seems to me you ought to respect my feel
ings more"
The minister went to the window and
raised it, and united the black ribbons from
the shutters and flung the latter open.
LET the light shine out upon the road
this Chistmas eye," he said. Let it cheer
the belated traveller on his way-some one
that might be going home TO his mother,
perhaps-home to spend Christmas with
his mother"
"Let her light her lamp then" said Mrs.
Wayne. tWhy should I? My son will
come to me no more" The minister turned
about and faced her.
"If it was the Lords will that he should
return to you he would come, Sister
Wayne" he said.
"The Lord himself can't undo DEATH"
she answered.
"a young man called upon me tonight.
who thought his mother dead" said the
minister "When / told him that she lived
and mourned for him, you. should have
seen his happy face. He had seen her
house closed, with black ribbons on the
shutters, and in the graveyard, side by
side, three stones-his fathers his sisters
and his mothers, he supposed. 1t was too
dark to read the names. He believed that
in his absence his mother had departed
this life, and he came to me to ask partic
ulars What said to him was Young
man, preached your funeral sermon five
years ago. These cases of mistaken iden-
= ,%.-,o rx,,tt,x rler
is over your own remains
The widow uttered cry and clasped her
hands '"There, cannot keep him out
any longer. do not believe that joy ever
kills." said Dominic Thawler He stepped
away from the French window against
which he had set his back, and as he did
so Herford Wayne rushed into the room,
sank at his mothers feet and knelt there
with his arms about her waist and his
head upon her bosom, sobbing like child.
The old preacher slipped away. A little
figure stood trembling outside the door
A miracle had happened. Herford lived.
was here before her eyes again. But, alasl
he did not think of her His mother was
all to him.
Il never knew of the destruction of the
factory" he was saying. II had been of
fered chance to make my fortune, and
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Lnow And at al events sinca T have
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too we'll
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haII. re Harford Nod r,.da his fort,,ne
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