The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-11-16


family. no doubt, as last rs she
could GO
That was what Mamie meant"
she went on with sudden change
of thought, when she ga d that
some men rubbed up their farthings
TO look like gold, and offered them
TO woman, and others kept their
pure gold so dull that il might pass
for copper. but wife got to know
the real value of what "a man gave
he in time. she meant that the pure
gold, all the gold of his life. was
IN ne and the glittering copper hers.
And the outside of a man, his very
name even. does not matter - Ia
is the hea {. That is the man. And
no matter what my poor fe low
might have done, what fOllies and
errors he may have fallen into he
is too good in the main TO have
strayed far from the right path and
| am going to look for you. John to
look for Won. an find you"
She walked buoyantly on. unchilled
by the Singing II ST. so warm was
the heart fire within her. and Ma y
w,
restless da and slecpless nights
had given back to her the figure OF
n girl, an | into her face hal come
new and spirituali2ed beauty that
made hcr younger b. ten years.
II think can understand it all
now she said TO herself, what a
woman may be driven to
after all the weakest man is stronger
than the strongest woman-he is
self-suflicient, he has no ill-health,
no nerves (anybOdy could tell by
the wa; women are made that provi-
dence isn't femaleO, while she with
out him she is nothing. She has no
one TO think OF no one to provide
for--and men arc nothing but grown
up children. after all
She went into tho pretty, low house
in summer bower of trellis. work
| and roses-with a light step, and
found the rose shaded lamps inviting
and cheer III after the mist and lone
illness without
A long figure rose from q lounping
char, as she came in. and seized her
in its arms--it was Tom.
But even while he kissed her. she
pushed him back with both hands.
and looked in his face.
Your father?" she said, "you
| have brought me bad news"
The revulsion of feeling was too
great. after the resolve of the past
hour, and she would have fallen il
he had not caught her
But she did not faint, strong
hearted women never do: they only
suffer agonies that tho weak merci-
fully escape by uuconsciousness, and
in few seconds she SAID:
Tell me-"
There is not much TO tell
mother darling" said Tom pitifully.
his own face telling far more than
he knew; "only we can't find father,
and we are afraid -"
That he is dead" said Mary
quietly, land. il so. killed him"
IL don't believe he is dead for a
moment" said Tom energetically;
"but we are afraid that he is living
somewhere on very narrow means. {"
Starving, you mean" said Mary,
throwing her costly cloak from her
as if it burnt her
1--WE hope not" said Tom. gravely,
but we have found out, Fletcher
and /. and Mr.. GolGsworthy has
helped us little, that at the timo
you and he separated. he was an en-
tirely ruined man. All his private
fortune was gone and after you left.
everything was sold at II riley
Street, includ ing the lease. and the
money for that vanished Likewise :"
but ne bad his half pay!" cried
Mary. whose mind was T. coiling at
the modest luxury in which she had
live during the last six months.
That is gone too. or rather, he
does not receive it. He has assigned
it to his creditors"
What creditors" said Mary.
"Do you mean Lady Branches cred
itors2"
"No-his own. He seems to have
speculated ruinously under Lady
Blanche's auspices, but curiously
enough only he was ruined. not her
exceedingly smart ladyship."
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