Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-06-06
rled lifo begun and continued for the sake


ried life begun and continued for the sake
Of eXpedcncy!
Silence looked up in her husbands face
her husband whom she was ready to
live for however hard life, ready to die
for, and he knew II.
"You ARE right" he said. "And yet
both errcd-both ought to suffer-"
But not more than they, And the sins
of the parents shall be visited on the chill
dren even unto the third and fourth gen
Grafton" She spoke in low, solemn
voice. 81 told her once, and l shall tell
her again, IL she asks me, that she who
makes bad man the father of her chill
dren Is little better than a murderess,"
Bella, however, did not seem ut all to
deserve or to desire the epithet poor"
She appeared at breakfast next morning
in the best Of spirits, nor did she fall into
her usual half hour Of dependency after
the post went by. She watched the
weather with a slight anxiety but that
was ALL She even began to take an in
terest in Blackhall affairs, and especially
| Symington, which her brother and sister
| were discussing together.
"Of course you will go and take me with
you? | had no idea, Silence, that you
had such grand friends. Do you often
see them"
"Not very often. It's good way to
walk and besides"
"Walk? You don't mean to say your
hugbagd lets you walk"
A sharp culver Of pain passed over
Roderick's face. 81 let her, as / am
cut me to the heart but we bear them.
Bella, when you and | were children, we
had no need to think of money; now we
have-at least l have. If l hired car
rage and took my wife and you to Sym
| ington, ii would cost me fifteen shillings,
and my earnings are just two pounds
week. Now, you see? Let us say no
more"
They did not, for Bella afterwards
owned to being "quite frightened" by her
brothers manner; but several times that
morning she fell into brown studies, as
! If something was secretly veXing her, and
! in the afternoon was suddenly missing
! for an hour, having gone herself-"for the
good of her health, she said-to the vii
lage, and as, by mere chance they after
ward discovered to the postofiice.
Had She after refusing 50 often, at last
written to her mother? They did not like
to ask, and she did not tell, but being not
at all of a rcticent nature, she soon be-
trayed that something was on her mind.
For three days after that she was in u
restless slightly irritable condition, very
difficult to please in triiles, and noticing
more than ever, in that annoyingly CON
descending way she had, the weak points
Of the establishment,
"And so Cousin Silence left you the
house just as it stands, my dear, as it
must have been in papa's time of course!
Well, no wonder mamma did not care for
it. Such poky rooms, such shabby old
furniture. In your place | would have
turned out every stick of it, and refur-
nished it from top to bottom. But you
can do this by and by, If you stay here"
81 have no wish to go.'
"Probaby not, quiet soul like you; it
suits you exactly. But my brother, you
surely would not keep him shut up all his
DAYS at Blackhall, he who would be an
ornament in any society? Do think bet
ter of it. Poke him up, make him push
himself forward in the world and get
rich; there's nothing like money, after all.
If mamma saw him well off so that he
could come back to Richcrden, and live
in good Richerden style, such as we have
all of us been brought up to, she might
forgive him; who knowsT'
"Who knows" repeated Silence, as
senting.
She would have been amused, but for
the sting which Bella's good-natured
words often carried. She did not mean
it; it was simply that she should not un-
derstand.
Just think of what say" continued
Mrs Thomson, as she gazed lazily out of
the window, down the winding glen, at
the end of which curled upward in a
fairy-like pillar the smoke of the mill. 81
} wonder you can endure the sight of it
) that horrid place where Rody works al
day-Rody that used to be such gentle.
man."
"He is a gentleman" said the young
wife, with flush of the eye. And dc
, not dislike-I like the mill. 1t has helped
to make him what he is, and show him
what he could do; and he does it, does il
cheerfully for me. Bella, if die-and
: may die; who can tell? this sprng"-witl
, sudden appeal to this woman, so like
} herself, but yet u woman-"if die, re
f member we were perfectly happy, my
| husband and l. We never have regret
+ ted anything, never shall regret anything
+ except perhaps that his mother--I always
70 feel so for mothers"
/ Her voice broke with emotion, but i
y was with emotion quite thrown away
Bella scarcely heard what her sister-in
i law was saying She sat listening, as sh
f had listened q good many times the las
S few days, to any sound outside,
: "Hark! What is that! Carriag
}, wheels"
!, POSSIBLY. We do have visitors some
times, even here" said Silence, with
|, smile.
It But Bella needed her not. She ran t
+ the window and watched in tremor o
II anxiety, the arrival. A large, handsom
carriage, with post-horses, position an
b; two liveried footmen behind comm
r, slowly up to the door.
e ut is! it is our carriage! Perhaps sh
p has come herself poor dear mamma!
did not tell you, my dear, but l wrote
a mamma, and said, if she thought it bes
l would come home. And l suppose sh
s. has sent for me. Look there! look there
8, No, it is not mamma--oh, God help me