The Press., 1895-11-14

eVer,, or she WOulln It have been so ready to pick up Ann Elizabeth's s leavin s, as the sayin is, for in rather more than a month from the date of the weddin day that should have been Robert was really married to Mary Goodacre. -s alo+' What Ann Elizabeth thought about 1t Inn not goin Aotteh you, for ths very good reasonf that r. don't know She never opened her lips on the subject to 8, soul, alI she wasn't one of the s9rt folks could laugh and joke with. Sue seemed to pick up the threads of, her old life just where she had droppad them, an glad enough the old laidi9s wtere to have her back, though the kind creatures were grieved about the misun- ,deEstandin an had done their best to heal the breach. ','-' 7@- 1
 "Neither can tell you whether Rob ert an Mary were happy together. Twas only an outsider an knew nothin of the inner workih' of the minds of them. I can only tell you the facts as all the world knew of them. Of thoughts an feelin's Iscannot speak. -'' < -- T''Now, Mary had Twin near her very particular friend, named Ellen COunter-been used to visit her a good deal. an no doubt Robert grew to share his wife's hkin for her.
 'Time went on, an 8 little sickly child $ was born to Robert an Mary Notherike.t Mary cluhg to the child the moro passionately for its more than usu- ally helpless, dependence, an when her own health showed unmistakable signs Uf faf1in an 1t began to be thought she was not long for this world the thought of her child was the thing that troubled .hSr night an day. '@FT-' ''+ '''' '>>-'' 7. , ''' 't sThel child shall be cared for, Mary said Robert Be easy, lassi Do you think would ever let him be ill treat ed?9 -..-.:. ...s@t =.
 e '"'Men don't always how,' sighed poor Mary You'll marry again, Rob ert; you II be sure to do!' T == .- '&"& Robert did not speak. don't know whether the thought of Ann Elizabeth or6ased his mind, but have often fan Cied Mary must have imaginedrit it did.
 '':Poort .senl she was only human an may have thought that Ann Elizabeth would carry D ,grudge against the child of the woman ;yVb who had been, in sense, heett Tiv7sa Tfivsll.. u h'l''' ''1''':>'
 'Robertl she said suddenly all this was told to mo, miss, by the woman who was .nursin poor Mary at the time, an ,whof heard dnitEaN--4will you marry EllenH Oh, if you will only promise to marry Ellen, shall have no care left. could trust hen to be good to my child
 ? Robert hssitated, but it is hard to refuse thsf request of the dyin. 2 < -idf When she said again pleadingly, { tsIXEEill you marry EllenP' he said,s Yes quietly, an Mary Wasfat peace
 '; tsShes didhn0b live long after that. Before shs died ishe pIaced her child in E1lensS [ atniE, hn believe Ellen took it Gs 6f solemn trust. A s'tel ~ -
 "rheFe had certainly been . very strCng m tthe fri6ndship between the two fwonheny ,antI don think anybody else would have bestowed the careson that peeEiah, ,tiresome child as Ellen did.
 .''When- Mary had been dead ashort time, .Ellen married Robert, an . good wife she made him, Ann Elisabeth never opened her lips on the subject Of this second marriage any more than 6Iie had done on that of the first She went on in the old steady way until changes began tooome for her as we'll as for all thetFest of the world stitit it'
 titThO old 7Iadies had been in failin health for some md ti1nesa an Ann Eliza Beth had tended them as gently an care fully as anybody could have done. She wasn't the sortft6 Gi0 7E for the sake of pay or reWafde 'Eh41 was Honestly fond q fheixn, ,ssifIc bell ievSe, nobody was wal more lanrpr dsstAan she when. .afteF their .Ees aetivadeathS ons butlived the Soth- e forp few Weelrs only y-it WAS found that ehe va tho inhsEitor Of allthey lSlad to 1eaye.
 What had been straightened. means to ladiea i'm eariie9 days had been used to aomethin 50 much better waa afduenoe to knn liizabetll.. She was Sole mistress Fl t6e prsly house where she had foEmle E1ys bean Servant, m ghe, had enough tp 11re her com.