The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.
Blu MRS, OLIPHANT,
COPYRIGHTED, 1898, BY THE AUTHOR.

I ledrL EOOQ 10 Julnk lldt ms was touched
4 and softened at the last, to his Maker at
I least. II no more.
"Oh, mem, the one would go with the
! other, if what you think is true"
/ No said Miss Bethuue, shutting her
/ lips tight, no, there S no necessity. If il
/ hadbeen so what would have hindered
| hvn to give the boy chapter and verse,
/ Her name is So and So, you will hear of
| her at such a place. But never that
never that. though it wOuld have been so
easy! Only that ne had q mother living.
mother that the guardian man and the
lad himself OWNED must have been "a
| DO YOU not call that evidence" cried
/ Miss Bethune, with a harsh triumph.
! do you not divine our man in that On,
but ] see him, as clear IS il he had signed
his name"
Dear Nom" cried Gilchrist. with a
"tchich tchick. Of troubled sympathy
and spectatOrship, you Gamma wish he
had been true penitent and yet think Of
him like that"
And who are you 20 lay down the law
and say what J can dO2' cried the lady
She added, with a wave of her hand and
of her head, Wen not argue that Ques-
ton, but if there ever was an action more
like the man just TO give the mint and
| clear his conscience. but leave the
womans name to be torn to pieces by any
dozen in the place! If that is not evil
dence, don know what evidence is
Gilchrist could say nothing in reply.
She shook her head, though whether in
agreement or in dissidence il would have
been difficult to tell, and folded hem upon
hem on her apron, with her eyes fixed
upon that, as if it had been the most i'm
pOrtaut of work. Il was wanting to
speak she said, "when you had mo-
ment to listen to me, about two young
folks"
What two young folks" Miss Be
thune's eyes lighted up with a CLEAN of
soft light, her face grew tender in every
line. But Dora IS too young, she is far
too young, for anything of the kind,
she said.
Ell men," cried Gilchrist, with
mingliug of establishment. admiration and
pity. can YOU think Of nothing but yon
strange young MANI
81 am thinking of nothing but the BARN.
the boy that was stolen away before he
knew his right hand from his left. and
now is come home
"Aweel, aweel," said Gilchrist, 1--WE
will just have to put up with il, as we
have put up with it before. And sooner
or later his mind will come back to what's
reasonable and true. / was speaking not
OF the young gentleman, or of any like
him, but of the two who were up in the
attiCs that you were wanting 10 save. if
Att & Iutlll y & Cdlis llGA are JUST manu-
less creatures, the one and the other; but
the woman's no an i'll person, poor thing,
and would do well if she knew the way.
And baby coming, and the man just a
weirdless. feckless, i'll man.
He cannot help il if he is i'll, Gilch-
rist"
Maybe no, ." said Gilchrist, cautiously.
I'm never just so sure of that; but, any
way, he's a delicate creature, feared for
everything and for "a Chris tian ava 11pov
him, which is the worse of all; and
wherefore we should take them upon our
shoulders, folk that we have nothing to
do with husband and wife, and the fam
lily that's coming
oh. woman" said her mistress, eff
they have got just a step ont of the safe
way in the beginning, is that not reason
the more for helping them back2 And
how can ] ever know what straits he
might have been put to, and his mother
ignorant, and not able to help him?"
Eth, but m thankful to hear you say
that aeain!" Gilchrist cried
Not that l can ever have that fear
now, for a finer young man or a more
sweet, ingenious look! But no credit to
any OF US, Gilchrist. I'm thankful to
those kind people that that have brought
him up, but it will always be pain in my
my heart that | have had nothing to with
the training of him, and will never behalf
so much to him as that that lady, who
is in herself poor weakly woman, if l
may say such a word
1t is just very strange thing" said
Gilchrist, that YOU lady, is as much
taken up about our Miss Dora as you are,
mem, a bout the young lad
All" said Miss Bethune, a nod of ner
head, but in different way Her
| mothers sister-very kind and very
natural, but on, how Different | am TO
contrive 10 take Dora TO see her, forI fear
she is not long for this world, Gilchrist.
The young lad, as you call him, will soon
have nobody to look to but"
MEM cried Gilchrist. drawing her
self up, and looking her mistress sternly
in the face.
Miss BCthune confronted her angrily
| for moment, then coloured high, and
| flung down, as it were, her arms. mo.
! noH' she cried-''nO, you are unjust to
| me, as YOU have been many time before
| am not glad of her illness, poor thing
| God forbid it l am not eXulting. as you
think, that she will be out of my way.
| Oh, Gilchrist, do you think so little of
| me-a woman You have known this long,
| long lifetime-as to believe that"
! "Eh, mem, said Gilchrist, when you
| and me begin to think i'll of each other.
! the world will come to an end. We ken
! each ither far too well for that. We may
| scold me whites when ] little deserve it,
! and put thing upon you for a minnit
/ that is nae blame of yours; but ma, ma.
there is nae misiudging possible between
! you and me"
1t will be seen that Gilchrist was very
! cautious in the confession of faith Just eX-
! torted She was no tlatterer. She knew
| of what her mistress was capable better
! than that mistress herself did, and had
/ all her weaknesses on the tips Of her
! fingers But she had no intention of dis
! Couraglng that faulty, but well beloved,
woman. She went on in indulgcut, semi
! maternal tones. You've had great
/ deal to excite you and trouble You. and in
my opinion it would do We a great deal of
! good, and help yo to get back to your ordi-
nary, if you would just put everything
/ else away, and consider with me what
/ was best to be done for thG two feckless
! young folk II the man is not put to do
! anything ne viii be in more trouble than
! ever, o. m no Judge"
| And IL might have been hint" said
! Miss BethUne to hcrself-lhe habitual
! utterauce which had inspired so many
! facts OF charity. 81 think YOU are may
| be, right, Gilchrist," she added lit will
| steady me, and do me good. Run down
| stairs and see if the Doctor is in He
! knows more about him than we do. and
! we lliust have a good consulta ion and
! see what is the best to be done
/ The doctor was in, and came directly.
| aud there was a very anxious COusulJa-
! ton about the two young people, to whose