Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

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himself unframed. Mildred. beloved.
keep before you those grand words
Train up a child in the way that he
should go and when he is old he will
not depart from it and let them rule
your life"
They shall" she replied. cllnging
to him with kisses and tears.
Il do not think he continued in
faint voice, Il have been bad man l
may have been obst nate and self
willed but not wicked; 1 hope to find
my home in hea en-. l shall wait for
you there, darling. Oh. pro Mise me
to bring the boy--will he be boy or
man. / wonder? Promise me- my
wife, that you will teach him and train
him properly. Look up ut me and
promise"
The golden light was fading and the
sound OF the falling water could be
heard more distinctly. She raised her
beautiful face all wet with fast-falling
tears and quivering with grief
Il promise. she answered.
He pointed TO the setting sun.
'Be ;ore Heaven, Mildredp
'Yes, she said solemnly before
Heavenr' and a look OF unutterable
happiness came over the dying mans
face.
Let me see him. he whispered.
In few moments the nurse brought
in a lo;ely, Notwithstanding c.Sld
between two and three years of eGe
his face full OF rich coloring. '
laughing eyes and smiling lips bt
white shoulders and arms and
sturdy limbs. He uttered a cry OF
light when his mother raised him
her arms; and tho two formed
beautiful a picture that it was nd
wonder the dying man was loath to
leave them.
Sir Antony opened his arms with a
low cry that his wife never forgot
''l ONE hero little Carlos! All
Carlos, he said tenderlX holding the
child to his breast my little darling,
my baby son | am going away-gOiug
to the good Creator who made me.
Carlos will you DO goode Will you
promise me always TO do what mamma
says?"
always to do what mamma saws "
lisped the child. with great wondering
eyes.
Sir Antony took diamond ring
! from his finger and laid 1t in the soft
rosy palm of the boys hand.
Mamma will tell you all about it
when | am gone. When you are old
/ enough you must wear that ring as a
pledge of your promise to me; and
your promise is always to do what
mamma says"
do not go away. papa" said the
boy with quivering lips.
Il must Carlos"
Sir Antony took his wife's trembling
hands and placed them with the warm
rosy hands OF the boy.
My vile and my child" he said.
in a weak VOICE. u leave you in the
keeping OF the angels pray that
you may both come to me you will
! if Then the feeble hold relaxed.
Lady Carew hastily rang the bell,
! and the boy was carried from the room
crying out that papa must not-should
not-go.
The sun set and the golden light
died from the walls. The song of the
birds grew fainter; on the breeze was
born the murmur OF the waterfall;
and in the solemn hush OF evening
! Sir Autony's spirit winged its flight
and his wife lay weeping in hopeless
sorrow on the breast o. the dead man.
The Carews of Firholme had been
a very numerous and martial race.
men Of magnificent physique and of
strong passions. But OF late years
! there had been fewer Carews. and for
| four generations an only son had sue
ceeded his father What Sir Antony
had said was true-self-w will was the
curse OF the Carews. They never
brooked oppOsit on or contradiction
and could not endure TO be thwarted.
This characteristic had led many of
them to sorrow and death and as u
rule, it was because they had ignored
the advice of friends and gone their
| own way.
Sir Antony had been one of the
most amiable of his race in him the
obstinacy that distinguished the Car
ews had been TEN cred by great
+ dnldOlllJJ anu W MS pdSSlOudJS love
for his wife. He was very young
when he succeeded to Firhome: and
he married the beautiful Mildred
Chester the INDUCED and beloved
child OF wealthy old country squire.
Sir Antony and his lovely child
wife had lived happily enough. Dur
ing the first year OF their married
life he took her to London for the sea.
son. where her beauty and grace Gre
ated quite n sensation. But Lady
Mildred did not care much for fashion
able life. She loved her husband
with the utmost devotion she loved
their grand old home where he ruled
in lordly fashion; and when their
little heir was born she begged her
husband to remain at Firholme.
Sir Antony was delighted at the
birth OF his son and heir. and took O
pleasure in watching his pretty baby
ways He foresaw already the germ
OF some noble qualities in the child.
I'VE must begin at once with him.
Mildred" he would say, 'if we want
I TO make a man OF him. Let us teach
him self-control-no man is worthy OF
! the name If he has none"