New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-13

~To hermit me to see this young lady myself
| want to lie the first 10 announce 10 me-
great fortune, hut esPec'aiy l WANT u
So tbe old man drove TO Applewood aims
houses. and when the fOotman mad KhpcNS - -"
the door. ard Maud came 10 open th IL, n6 S She
knew who he was at once because he was 80 Inv
his SON. although the sunshine confused mJn
Iittic canning as she did from the bedside, "iIeiI
she had knct with her face in her h h c a,t
tbe sicl, woman's fingers resting on her ILL., Ti
Sb. heard the horses in the road champlhg 'iIcn I
bits, and she say W. the Eed tan HATS u VIC
Nv dear @To Young lady" said Ralph Kersal<e
GENEROUSLY. Il have come TO clalm you 80 ny
thc porch and the sick womans room Maud u "a
not want to 90 far from her charge ho' '''
disturb her by exciting conversation .,uo
She hacked into this passage and STOOD .I,cIc'
leaning asainst the wall looking with qnbeil9ev-
inc ewes at the old man before her un'''
stood that you Objects, tT S"s and was amb-
tors d for NJ" nov SON sow You viii forgive me that
ambition, since you love him Maud ,,ho found
+" sunposc So" murmurcd Maud VINO iou iI
if hard to forgive feeling that had dealt mun
her 20 cruelty, just now when she lid" eo"'
through hard trial hsrsetf vou now said Ralph
Kerslake triumphantIy " 1t is you who may 'ake
your revenge upon us if you like YOU apG neo
what we thought you. You are grc'V .. Tolne
the only granddaughter OF MIS- Ooi''' Vi O''''
lnd Won saw YOU claim me as your daughter
This is why then? Because you tnink i Deio ,
10 Great people because / can make your soli
rich +? OH you are mistaken. Come IN nere an"
see" ,..a. T., bcr ,-oicc
She spoke with ring of distress IN neL Ho aoJ
The old politician had taken her hands In MS anu
now she drew him forward, through the H"n
omen door into the sick room. cb
See she said, that Is my mother. nn
remembers me. She lost me long ago her , htne
il Martha Crewe She has been lodsihg-houS'
keeper all her life. .a Aro
Dismay came into the old mans race Arc
Won sure 2" he said. There must De Some HIS
take You are never that womans chlld
Yea | belong 10 her, not TO you 70 away,
Leave us together | must never see any VI 80
anv more and she burst now into bitter "Gep,
ing while the sick woman raised herself III oe e
and asked What is the matter? what IL uie
strange old gentleman saying to you :? Maud
IL does not matter what he says, A iii
answered II am yonr daughter, and no one sha az
take me from you Then weight seeine1 10 w
ifted from her heart: for the possibility OF mean
ness was over She had made her own choice, ana
mist abide BIZ it, She had separated herself from
her lover for ever but at least she had not peeh
entity of cruelty or ingratitudc Without love she
n,iobt still 1--we; but with shame and rem0rse III
her heart even love would have availcd nothlne
for happiucss She knew this now ana was ioU
sorry for having spoken. She looked. through het
,cars at her lovers father, and felt that IL
was not i'm his power 20 injure her any more. she
had decided for herself and would regret nothing
U,npincss is not always in orr reach; but the
ri~G 10 choose the highest duty and TO live by IT,
who can take that from us?