Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-30
non kOST SOUL
BY
COLEMAN DAVIDSON,
THE Green Hills by the
"Not a Moment TO Spare"
1.-THE Old Adam" sc.
'yyigAt, 1904 by HIGH Co'enon DlUidson.
Continued
CHAPTER NNVL
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HOLDING on.

her footstep az once. she was 10 the
porch before Hastie could reach the
door.
Girl" said she, trembling with an
ger, ''dO you dare 10 come here AFTER
What has happened?"
"Forgive me II I do wrong, Mrs.
Vane, " pleaded Hattie, looking up wita
tears in her eyes. at is because OF
what has happened that I do dare 10
come. felt I should so like 70 90
something-anything az ail-ior your
you would let me-for the sake OF him
who is gone from US both.
Haven't you done enough?' de-
manded Mrs. Vane. ale would have
been alive and well but for YOU"
"Oh, Mrs. Vane-don't-dOn't." en-
treated Hattie. you don't know DO"
you hurt me"
''You can think Of yourself. Why
did not you think or him-and me? 10
was you who turned the police against
him; it was you who urged him TO nee
when / wanted him 10 come back ana
face his accusers-yes, you who set him
against his own mother; il was you who
drove him % his DEATH
"Oh, Mrs. Vane, don't be hard upon
me-" sobbed Hattie. My burden IS
heavy enough as 10 is. DOn't-pleass
don't add 20 it. I did thiu6 it better
for him to eScape-the idea o; his be-
ing In prison was so drCadtul-but /
did not know you thought otherwise,
ana my father never delivered my mes
sage. There, that is the plain truth.
But words will not help us nOw-at
least not angry woods. Oh, why should
We quarrel? Do let uS try as best we
can 70 comfort one another.
But the old lady, distracted by her
grief, answered: 81 will take no COM
fort from you. Keep out Of my sight.
That is all I ask Of you"
Hattie went iltlle way, but turned
and came back again.
"Oh, don't let US part so, she crleo'
~ can't leave his mother like this. be-
fore very long the grave will come be-
tween us-we can't speak tneu-one
will 90 befOre-afterwards the other
will fOllow-hOW shall we meet In tue
presence OF him We love? On, don Z
turn me away. III we put of reconch-
iatiOn the chance may never, never
come again. Forgive me, Mrs. Nane,
for all that l have done wrong And
she caught hold Of the Old ladY's dress
But Mrs. Vane drew back.
Don't touch me" she exclaimed.
"You have injured my son; Il is not FOR
me to forgive you-I cant Now go
20 quickly"
Sobbiug bitterly, Hattie went out into
the road. Had she turned she would
have seen a very miserable old lady
clinging 10 the porch for support, ready
enough 90 have called her back had she
not been restrained by some strange
notion Of fidelity 10 her dead son.
Hattie felt that she was 10 no Condi-
tion TO walk into the town just yet. So
she went towards the glen, thinking
that perhaps there she might find some
grief TO sympathise with OF some trouble
20 alleviate.
10 was a lovely morning, the ground
frozen hard, and every leaf and twlg
powdered with crystalhZed snow, which
suarkled like diamonds in the sunlight
Tue broad stretch of giistening water 10
Gorragh Bay, With the dark cliffs and
grassy terraces round the shiRgly beach
never looked more charming,
and although the glory Of tho
gorse and heather was gone from
tho mountain slopes, there were still
q few touches Of yellow here and there.
But Hattie could not survey the scene
%itbout shudder. Let the sun shine
NEWER so brightly, she would always
sch the bay through drenchlng rain or
a lhorping mist, 10 would be very rough
audi stormy, and the waves would al
ways be bursting in foam over bat
teted hulk, at one time with several
figures clingiug 10 the bulWarks, az an
other without a soul upon It, The
hulk broken i'd two pieces, lay upon the
beach now. When she thought Of all
that she had expected OF itSOi the happy
Canadian home, with her young lover,
which it was to have led to tears came
into her eyes afresh.
In the glen she found a SAD change.
Bright looks and smiles longer greet
ed her coming; no babies were held up
for her 70 praise; every face bore the
evidence of a great sorrow. For some
had lost husbands and others had lost
sons: all being related, the death Of one
meant the grief Of many. To make
matters worse, several families de-
prived OF their bread winners had been
rendered destitute, being entirely de-
pendent upon the kindness OF their
neighbors, Who were not Thuch better of
themselves. AN that Hattie could do
for them she did. She gave them freely
OF her sympathy, and she empued her
purse amOOg them. But the vevv ma
ture of these people seemed % have
changed They no longAr opened their
hearts 20 her as they used TO do; their
looks were Su.len and they muttered
among themselves when she spoke TO
them; although they took her money
they returned her no gratitude for it.
The fact OF the matter vas they blamed
George for all the trouble which had
come upon them, aud so in a measure
they blamed Hattie.
In one respect they were fortunate.
Although criminal prosecution had
been talked about, 10 had been definitely
abandoned in consequence OF the suffer
ing which they -Aad brought upon
themselves, this being held 30 be
sufficient punisbmeut Among those
included 10 thF general amnesty were
Taggart and Qraltrough, the two Survi-
vOrs Of the Kestre's crew. In them
Hattie took an especial interest. She
tried hard TO induce them 10 tell her
about theiatal night when they escaped
from the, cOnstableS, only TO be over
come blythe sea.afterwards, but they
remained dOggedly silent. Everybody
appeared % be against her.
There was just one more cottage
which she wished to visit-the one in
which BINS father lived. He must be
terrible Ibnely now, she thought so she
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