The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-04-14

LIZ Eau nerVed her.
f., b. self to meet her
" M father She glanced
<,Nsens i'll the mirror and
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but how different his
pallor from her own-his pallor like
none other in the world.
A SILVER passed over her. Did she
love her father? Her anger went out
to him, not her love; her love was for
Jack, and he could never be ANYTHING
to her. Last night she had written to
Jack and told him the truth, and the
truth would separate them forever.
She was the daughter of thief!
What uselessness it had been for her
moth er TO move hundreds OF miles from
the old home it had been done for the
husband, not for the daughter. For
the daughter there had been half
years residence in this new place, and
IL learning to love a man whom she had
last night declined to marry. Her
father had wrought this unhappir ess
as he had wrought so mu en- more.
What grief had not her father
wrought The day he went to prison
for the defalcation in the bank where
he had been cashier and her mothers
father president, had not her mothers
father fallen dead? The world had
said the old banker could not stand
the disgrace. And what more? Had
not her mothers mother, always an
invalid, been stricken by her hus-
bands death, and never been told of
her son-ln-law's crime? There had
been mass of deception, tho poor
feeble woman being led to believe that
her daughters husband, whom she
loved as II son, had gone away on bust
ness. and letters written in his prison
cell had been read to her, and thew
told her of great prosperity in the
West, with cheerfulness that was ap-
palling. Yes, the girl almost hated
her father as she thought over the
events of the past four years. And,
yet, would she have hated him save
Tor Jack?
She pressed her hands ferceiy to her
eyes.
Suddenly she started; there was n
step on the stairs, her mother was
bringing her father up to her. How
should she meet him him? Had it not
been for Jack, she knew how she should
have met thim! But her father had
forced Jack from her.
Tie steps ascending the stairs
stopped. There was n cough outside
the library door. She knew the sharp
little cough-she used to fly to meet
her father, four years back, when she
heard that little cough in the hall in
the dear old home. Now she did not
move from the chair she sat in.
She heard voice outside the door,
her mother urging her father to enter
tue room. Then the handle of the
door turned and her mother led in n
strangely aged man.
The girl rose; her father stood be.
fore her, expectancy in his face. She
went slowly to him, and held her fore
head up to his lips. Her mother
looked augrily at her, but she went
back to her seat and caught up come
sewing.
annie" said her mother, sharply.
sis this the way 90 meet your father ?
% you know that all that has oc-
Cured has been more to me than To
anyone else in the world? Aud ct I
forgive because love. And you, who
have lover"
81 have no lover" coldly interrupt
cd the girl. 81 couldn't deceive him
any longer. / wrote him last night !;
/ told him the truth, and that /
would not marry him"
The father shrank in his chair.
"Ab, said the mother, "now nm
derstand." She turned 10 her hus.
band. MARK, do not mind it, dear.
You have me, and / shall never foil
YOU. Have / ever failed YOU? What
IS done. is done; II is oil wiped away
it is only remembered by your dauqh.
ter, not by me, and you are as much
to me after all tbe mistakes and suffer.
ings as the day when / stood by your
side and vowed to be n loving and true
wife till God should part us in death.
We always spoke of you, mother
and J."
Your mother" his dry lips sail,
where is she?'
His wife caught his hand.
Dear she said, "can you bear n
little more?'
he Looked at her.
Annie, she said, sternly, "get me
those letters"
The girl went and took from n book.
case q packet which she brought to
her mother.
Ny letters 10 your mother, " the
mans lips seemed to say, land IN.
opened"
His wife fondled his hand.
't WAS only few months ago, +" she
said. ~ could not tell you the truth
any more than 1 could tell her. lie