The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-20

of pain came into Singlesby's eyes
mot that could pay you, II would
what really owe you.
"Well well, Margaret" he sald'
"that can wait, but this is not to Dc
goodby You know ] am to see your
old desk which you brought with
YOU from Nova Scotia, and lam sure
an acquaintance so made--though
didn't wait for an Introduction, dld
/, before trying to pull you out?--
cannot be intended to end here.
"You may come if you wish, OF
course, Mr.. Singlesby, and you will
always find father at home in the
evening. He will be glad to show
you the desk. But our lives can have
nothing in common, and it must be
goodby and God bless you, my kind
preserver. 1 shall get place, never
fear. Father will look after me
now"
And so they parted.
Now, this desk Of which Margaret
had spoken in her confidential chats
with Singlesby as a relic of the bet
ter days of the family down in the
provinces, to which the girls heart
reverted with simple pride, was OF
course only pretext. Yet, of course,
being who and what he was, the
young man was connoisseur of old
furniture, and even in the excite
ment of his first visit to Margaret in
the humble street at the south end,
of which she had given him the adj
dress, be did not fail to ask Leland,
who was present, for the fulfillment
of the promise.
Though dressed in wCrl1ingmen's
clothes and with hands roughened
by labor, the father was simple, I'M
affected and manly, and, with astart
of surprise, Singlesby saw that he,
too, had a Copleston face.
"You see the thing here, sir, " Lee
land said, and he drew aside the cur
tain which made two apartments of
the little chamber, pointing to a
clawfooted and brass mounted writ
ing desk of the kind which defies
modern imitation, the possession of
which in New England is kind of
patent of nobility.
"It does not seem at homo here,
Mr.. Singlesby, does it? Father and
I have thought perhaps that you
would be willing to take it from us
as a little memorial of the night
when you spoiled your evening suit, I"
and the merry smile was even more
enchanting than the old pallor and
showed the recovered soundness of
mind and body.
Indeed we should be glad if you
would, said Leland. my granddad
used to be proud of his ancestors,
who came down to Halifax at the
but were always poor
enough, heaven knows, and now
such a thing as this is not fit for a
carpenter and shopgirl. The
thoughts OF such matters only help
TO pull % man down when he is dis
Outraged and tempted. 4"
And he put his arm around the
girls waist in a way which at once
delighted Singlesby as a proof of the
revived paterral affection and panied
him in another, for by this time this
young man had actually
resolved to separate the young girl
from her present conditions and aft
er some year or two of education for
another sphere offer himself, his
hand and his fortune to Margaret
Such men there are even today, with
the strong will and strong passions
of the olden time. Circumstances
may never call them forth; they may
live ordinary, conventional lives, yet
under the proper influence they arc
capable of sacrificing the world for
love, and finding it well lost, sweep
ing away all the entanglements,
which are, after all, only cobwebs,
though we make them chains of
ron. Such one, unknown to him
self, was Singlesby, and he had re-
solved strongly and finally, though
It must be confessed the Tory ances-
try quite cheered the young Bosto
man on his determined course.
"You will let us give it to you,
then, Mr.. Singlesby?" And as Mar
yaret again joined her entreaty he
Gould not refuse, though even this
rifle crossed his fancy-a charming
one to such a lover-to take nothing
Ind give everything.
There are some papers, too,
which might amuse you in it. Our
'nly family inheritance" added Le-
and.
Then, insisting upon sending for
he writing desk himself, Singlesby
ook his departure, the significance
If the girls farewell, of which she
clearly intended to indicate the final
ty, adding intensity to the ardent
young mans resolve The desk ar
lived, and upon opening it the next