Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-27

wild scheme in my absence i became Sc
riously alarmed, and as you we'll know
recalled you abruptly from your pleasant
travels and fastened home, giving no ex-
PLANTATION for this sudden change in our
plans to any one except your mother
For the last three months have been oc-
cupied in making a most rigid investiga-
ton, and now you have the results"
"How has LIE Barron carried himself
during your examinations which he must
know would end in the discovery of his
fraudulent course?"
with a hardihood and Indifference
that have been very painful to me. But
within the last week, as his duplicity be-
came more fully revealed he has broken
down completely
''Now that you know ALL" said Mrs.
Newton, ''surely he has not the effrontery
to urge longer delay in closing the bust
ness"
"Ahi He is half frantic All his
hopes and courage are crushed, and he
breads the revelations which must be
made to his family more than death or
dishonor."
''Has his wife thus far received no in
timation of the storm that is gathering
about herr"
''Some, imagine. But before this the
wretched woman must have been told
the whole. When he became satisfied
that the revelation could no longer be
delayed, 1 took the responsibility of max
ing our determination public and urged
him TO hasten to Roseville before the
tidings could reach his family through
general gossip, and before this the tale is
@01I II boc
prudence left, she must prove it now, for
she cannot look upon her husband with
out realizing that his life and reason are
both in danger"
''There is little hope for him if his
safety depends at all upon his wife's gen
t1eness or prudence said George. ''She
loves nothing but her own self. You
would be shocked could you know how
shamefully her family have always been
neglected and tormented whenever their
wishes interfered at all with her selfish
qualification
'Why, Georgel | thought she loved
her children passionately and INDUCED
them most injudiciously. But for years
have known very little of them"
''You know, dear mother, your chill
dren are often thrown into their society,
and etiquette has made an occasional call
necessary, although the atmosphere has
been very distasteful to US, and thus we
have of necessity known more of them
than you could. Oh, mother, it just oc-
ours to me that on returning from our
ride this afteraool 1 left Lillian and Rose
to call at the Lie Barrons. | had no heart
to accompany them, knowing as | did of
fathers anxieties, and now I fear they
will meet with stormy reception.
'Oh, my son, am very sorry. Should
they learn of this misfortune there, it
will be rude shock for our dear girls"
81 am inexpressibly grieved,' said the
father. eve could have made the rev.
elation so much easier. | have these
dear ones very near my heart of late. To
them life has been thus far only sunshine.
How will they endure the shadows?'
LILLIAN is naturally quiet and self
possessed. but Rose all life and joyous
ness"
''Oh, father! You do not yet know
our Rose if you fear for her, said George
earnestly Il 90 not believe that cher
ish warmer affection for one sister than
the other. Neither will repine, I am
confident, but in times of trial of what
Her smile will be just as glorious. her
sweet voice be heard in cheerful carols
as fresh and hopeful and hope giving in
a lonely cottage as in princely parlor. Is
it not so. mother
Eyes, my son. You judge correctly.
Our girls, my dear husband. are brave
spirits and will not murmur at any
change that brings 10 reproach and
threatens no disunion, but Rose seems
gifted with an abundant overflow of
cheerful courage that is peculiarly inspi-
rating to all who are brought within the
sphere of her influence, and which will
ever be to her the strongest assurance of
peace and happiness under all circum-
stances"
But. my dear Lucy, it is not simply
the effect of a change in our pecuniary
state or social position may have on our
daughters that has caused me SO much
anxiety. On those points you and George
cannot trust them more fully than | do.
But you cannot both have forgotten that
there are other ways in which our mis-
fortune may imperil their peace of mind.
They have given their happiness into
other hands than ours"
''You refer of course to Dunbar and
Grenville. Why, my dear. Eustace has
SO grown up with our children, and Lilly
and he have so long thought and felt in
unison that l would as soon expect our
boy here would shrink from the trial"
"No, dear; have no fears for Lillian's
peace, but slight and most natural mis-
giving about Grenville. | wish Dunbar
were here for her own sake more than
fears for his constancy."
''Ah, now you touch the one fear that
has often made me tremble of late, and
which all this day have weakly tried to
Danish. Grenville's faults lie mostly in