The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-21


Things had come 10 a climax in Marigold
Road.
The three men shut IN within narrow
compass quarrelled, and occasionally
fought (the elder and younger especially,
and the mother began to fall really i'll In
trying to reconcile irrecOncileable ele-
ments, independently of the daily problem
Of how 20 feed them.
Two of them desired nothing better than
to drive out the th.rd-a poor creature in
their estimatiOn-who neither fought nor
swore, who delighted in none of their pur-
suits, and even on occasion as has been
shown in the matter OF the beer bottles)
went out OF his way to thWart them IN
their cherished liknPs.
So Benjamin, who was his mothers
tyrant, and right hand, and general adj
wiser, spent good hour every day porting
over advertisements of cheap passages TO
foreign parts, and after some considera-
ton came 70 the conclusion that voyage
which cost f6 los. from start to finish would
about meet the requirements of the case,
the state Of the family purse, and the ca
pacilies Of the intending emigrant.
All OF which views being duly impressed
On his mother, and by her passed on, and
with some womanly circumlocution con
veyed to Tom, that parsonage turned
little white round the lips. drew deep
breath, and announced himself ready 70
sail when his passage money should be
Then the poor woman. whose weak
craving to behold him had lost him his
humble, happy career, set to work to
make flannel shirts for him, and other
such things as mothers love to maze ready
for their sons when they journey from
them. but since he never said anything.
or bullied her after Benjamin fashion, it
never occurred TO her that she was assist
ing at a tragedy, and indeed IL is probable
that no one in the world, not even Rose,
knew what was coming.
Rose wept hot passionate tears when he
told her that he was going, but when she
asked him what he was going 10 DO when
he got there, he said he did not know
and he might have added that he did not
care.
Timid. unresourceful, irresolute and
doubtful of himself to the last degree,
he might have gone on to the end of life
in the safe groove of his open-air con-
genial Australian life but rudely taken
out of It., thrown as he so soon would
be entirely on his own exertions in for
eign land, where he would not even know
a word of its language, il is no wonder
II his mind shrank from looking forward,
and that he prepared to obey orders like
"A btted and bridled brute.
So that. when he answered Rose after
that fashion, something deeper than pain
stabbed Rose; ii was fury, indignation, II
was a nameless fear and passionate afIec-
ton all in one, and if she could have
saved poor Tom by any impossible feat
Of work. she would have attempted it
But everything was already settled.
Tom had spared her until the last mo-
ment and in another three days he would
Rose" he said presently. that's a
prettier waistcoat than usual Is 1t for
sae?'
Rose blushed, and hung her head over it.
NO. Tom" she said, softly, 'its-it's
for Jack"
Tom sat silent-silent, and very, very
Perhaps he was a fool-he had never been
as capable of taking care of himself as his
fathers other children-but without an
other word, without a look at her, he knew
who Jack was.
So stii he sat that at last she stole a
And she knew then, knew it for all time,
that this poor boy loved her, would love
her who knows? When to him all other
| earthly things faded, as he did; When he
had gone away. saying no word, she burst
suddenly into wild weeping
1T is murder" she said, TO send him
away like that, and out of the whole
world no one will really care but me. o.!
] TOm-poOr Tom.
Next day she went-it was no great dis
| tance-to his mother
Mrs. Holmes drew her young guests at
tentiOn to the finenesS of the satin stitch
/ in Toms new fiannels, showed the shirts
/ the housewife, and the rest of a lonely
1 boys outfit going far from home.
Billy Goat, caught in wild deshabille, sat
I on the horsehair sofa, ogled the pretty
girl and fondled his beard.
/ In the distance Benjamin's strident voice
might t. be 1ia. bullying the maid
1 young face looked strangely stern, do
! you thing it right to send Tom to "a place
where employment is doubtful, and it Is
most unlikely ne VIII meet with anything
Mrs. Holmes folded the shirts, and
wished that Benjamin were present.
/ lie only understands horses" pleaded
/ the girl, he is a genius with them. Can't
| you send him back to Australia, to where
] he was before?'
Mrs. Holmes said it was impossible
/ she could not pay the passage money.
NO" said Miss CloVelly giving Billy
Goat level look of scorn beneath which
/ l know it is difficult. But you should
recoilect dear Mrs. Holmes, that for
/ nearly ten years he has entirely sup
/ ported himself-that he had saved up a
/ hundred pounds, which he spent mainly
on his brother. and that it IS your turn
She was outrunning the constable now
/ with vengeance, and she knew 1t, but
| her blood was up, and she was fighting
/ for Tom, poor Tom, who would not fight
{ for himself.
Really" began Mrs. Holmes. and then.
! to her Intense relief BENJAMIN black
| browed. sulien faced. came in and Rosa
scorning 10 stoop to such an adversary,
went abruptly out.
] Tom that evening received much ele-
I CANT chaff on his bright young compan-
ion, but for once in his life he flashed
out with such vengeance as to silence
! them both though to his mother, from
/ first TO last, he never said an unkind
I word.
When he came to bid Rose good-bv
. he was. calm, and even cheersll, but
I when she pressed him to write Cher, he
/ made no reply. He was to go down to
the docks that afternoon. and sail at
When the actual moment OF parting
| came he held her hand long while
| and his beautiful eyes. with their dumb
inarticulate pleading said more than he
] guessed.
''Good-by. Rose" he said. you are
| the only person In England I am sorry
/ 10 leave"
I That was al. Long. long after she
! wished with all her heart and soul she
had granted the request In his eyes. ana
1 kissed him. and even Jack wished Il too
I That night she dreamed "a dream OF him
I ana is terror haunted her for the few
/ days before she knew.
| she thought that she was coming down
| stairs ana saw. DO the narrow passage
I Tom his back against The wall. hlH arms
! stretched OUT wide. nud when she stepped
/ cloge and looked Do biH faee be- was
{ dead.
CHATTER 49,.
] ftqfe Cl0Ffly waited. nff 90 indlscrlh-
able fear and anxiety for news ~ Tom