The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-10

is gone? Have you no thought of that
poor lady, and what took place so lately?
Oh, my dear, have a softer heart"
Miss Bethune,'' said Dora. with
dignity, II am very sorry for the poor
lady of last night. was a little angry
but my heart was not hard. / was very
sorry. But how can l 60 on thinking
about her when l have father to think Off
/ could not be fond of her, could (? / did
not know her l never saw her but once
before. If she was my mothers sister,
she was-she confessed it herself
fathers enemy. 1 must-I must be on
fathers side, ~ cried Dora. Ihave had no
one else all my life. "
Miss Bethune and her visitor looked at
each other, he with a strange painful
smile, she with tears in her eyes. 1T is
just the common way" she said,-"just
the common way! You look over the one
that loves you, and you heap love upon
the one that loves you not"
ut cannot be tie common way" said
Gordon, 'for the circumstances are not
common. 1t is because Of strange things,
ana relations that are not natural had
no right to that love you speak of. and
Dora had. But have got all the advan-
tages Of il for many year. There is no
injustice if she who has the natural right
to it gets it now"
ION, my poorboy,n cried Miss Bethune,
"you argue well, but you know better in
your heart"
Il have not grudee in my heart" he
exclaimed, mot one, nor a complaint.
Oh, believe me except to be put away
as If l were nobody, just at this moment
when there was still something to do for
her. he said, after a pause.
Dora looked from one to the other,
half wondering, half impatient. you
are talking of Mr.. Gordon's bust
ness now" she said, land have nothing
to do with that, any more than he has to
do with mine. l had better go back to
father. Miss Bethune, if you win tell Dr.
Roland that he is cIuel-that he ought to
have waited till father was stronger
that it was wicked-wiclSed-to go and
pour out all that upon him without any
preparation, when even l was out of the
way
Indeed, think there is reason in what
you say, Dora said Miss Bethune, as
the girl went away.
1T will not matter said Gordon, after
the door was closed. THAT is one thing
to be glad of, there will be no more want
Of money. Now he said rising. Il
must 90 back again. 1t has been a relief
to come and tell you everything, but now
II seems as if had hunger to 20 back
again. 1t is so strange TO go back again
It's so strange to walk about the streets
and to know that l have nobody to 90
home to, that she IS far away, and IN
moved by anything that can happen to
me-" He paused moment, and added,
with that low laugh which is the alter
native OF tears: Not to say there is no
home to go back to, nothing but room is
hotel which must get out of as soon an
possible, and nobody belonging to me, or
a iG IN OF
accustomed to the idea"
Miss Bethune gave low cry. 1t was
inarticulate, but she could not restrain it.
She put out both her hands, then drew
them back again and after he had gone
away, shewent on pacing up aud down the
room, making this Involuntary movement,
murmuring that cutlery, which was not
even 4 word to herself. She put out her
hands, sometimes her arms, then brought
them back and pressed them to the heart
which seemed to be bursting from her
breast. "Oh. if it might still be that he
were mine! Oh, if l might believe it las
do do y and take him to me whether
or nop' Her thoughts shaped themselves
as their self repression gave way to that
uncomfortable tide. oh, well, might he
say that 1t was not the common way!
The woman that was mother to him,
thinking no more of him the moment her
If took him to my heart, that / think
must be mine, and then the other, the
true-that would know nothing of me!
And he, what does he know OF me2--what
think of mean old fool that puts out my
arms 10 him without rhyme or reason.
But then it's to me he comes when he's
in trouble; he comes To me, he leans his
head on me. just by instinct, by nature.
And nature cries out in me here" She
1,,,,
dramatic action to her heart. Mature
cries out-nature cries out!'
Unconsciously she said these words
aloud, and herself startled by the sound
of her own voice, looked up suddenly, to
see Gilchrist who had just come into the
room, standing gazing at her with an ex-
preston of pity and condemnation which
drove her mistress frantic. Miss Bethune
colored high She stopped in a moment
her agitated walk, and placed herself in a
chair with an air of hauteur and loftiness
were you wanting anything!" as if the
excellent and respectabl person standing
before her had been, as Gilchrist herself
said afterwards, "the scum of the earth
mo, much, mem" said Gilchrist ;''only
to know if YOU we're" Poor Gilchrist
was so frightened by her mistress's as
pect that she invented excuses which did
not sit well on her-"going out this morn
ing, or wanting your seam, or the stocking
you were l1nitting"'
Did You think had all at once become
dotted, and did net know what wanted2"
asked Miss Bethume, sternly.
Gilchrist made no reply, but dropped
her guilty head.
TO think" cried the lady, chat can
not have visitor in the morning-a COM
mon visitor like those that come and go
about every idle person-nor take a
thought into my mind. nor say a word
even to myself, but in comes an intrusive
serving woman to worm out of me, with
her frightened looks and her peety and
her compassion, what it's all about
Lord If it were any other but a woman
that's been about me twenty years, and
has just got herself in to be habit and
custom, that would dare to come with her
soft looks peetying mel"
Having come to a climax, voice and
feeling together, in those words, Miss
Bethune suddenly burst into the tempest
of tears which all this time had been
and growing beyond any power
of hers TO restrain them.
"Oh, my dear Teddy, my dear leddyu'
Gilchrist said; then, gradually drawing
nearer, took her mistress's head upon her
ample bosom till the fit was over
When Miss Bethune had Gained her
self again, she pushed the maid away.
IN have no communication with you"
she said. YOU'RE good enough servant,
Won re not an i'll woman. but nc fO1, rant