The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-26
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Sssgs pursue Loghlen would be to pub
h0eal wretched history to the
u sss A0te world; and the woman who was
IA ey. indeed, his wife, and who had
IA 1sss no wrong to Rosa, would be made
"a nuner terribly for her husbands
LtroCity.
s single word to Ter mother concern
that proposal Of a private mar
IL 0nd Rosa had been saved; and
IL RltterIy now, and with too good rea-
I "a, did she repent that, when most
& Sney had been needed, she had cast, in
N sSA moment, fro mher mind those les
4 IONS whose teachings had been for SO
4! many years the precious employment
Il oS her mothers life.
Ana Mrs. Willoughby beheld the fab
~ TIC she had, as she believed, by long
/ ma earnest labor, SO solidly reared, by
tho mere b.cath Of villain, made to
& eOpple down and become q hopeless
ruin.
4 Mother and daughter mingled their
Gears together; Rosa accused and hum
BLEED herself. "a too late repentance"
II Thought Mrs. Willoughby; but the
V words were not spoken.
Again and again did Rosa entreat for
pardon that in her mad love for a
heartless wretch she had forgotten the
sacred duty which she owed to her
L parent; and Mrs. Willoughby forgave
and pitied her poor child, and never ut
tered to her one upbraiding word, nor
East upon her one reproachful look.
For Mrs. Willoughby well knew that
me Loghlen O'Meara had been an honest
man, and not most atrocious villain;
q that Il the marriage had been, as Rosa
had believed it, real and true, and not,
- It had proved, vile and impious
II would have been poor Rosa, that she
] had not sought her mothers counsel
and consent.
A wife, and not wife! 1t was ne
OeSsary that Rosa should be sheltered
1 from all discovery of her sad secret
and innocent was she, and
4 forced to hide her head as though she
had been guilty Of crime.
The destroyer might strut 1t bravely
I before the world; the victim must
shrink and cover in obscurity.
Mother and daughter came to Lon
4 Ion; what other place so we'll fitted In
which to live unnoticed and unknown?
Rosa became q mother; and when
saittle Sydney, 30 she had named her
boy, was about three years of age,
well -to-do engraver, worthy young
|. man as ever lived, very humbly solic-
\ ited her hand in marriage.
James Drummond had been for over
Il two years deeply In love with the beau
Il tiful young widow-for widow Rosa
4 was supposed to be, and so indeed she
was: and never more terrible widow
4 hood than was hers-but, awed by so
4 much loveliness, it was some time be-
4 fore he could find courage even to hint
Ito the object of his worship how nee
essary she had become to his happi-
ness, perhaps to his very life.
Rosa had plainly learned to distin-
guish between mere outward glitter,
8 where all within was false and hollow,
II and that which made no outward
!. show, since all within was sound and
true.
She had become attached to James
Drummond; calm and tranquil love,
40 different to that wild passion which
!. had been annihilated as suddenly al
. most as it had risen; she thought, too,
-of what a heavy burden she was to
her poor mother, who could i'll spare
her small income sufficient to support
d her daughter and her daughters child.
Rosa reflected deeply, and had soon
nesolved.
James Drummond, she told him,
must withdraw the proposal he had
made to her and listen to her past his
tory.
And then, her hand fast locked in
that Of her mother, she related the
story Of her folly, aud of the terrible
deceit Of which she had been made the
victim.
And when he had heard, James
Drummond said, and truly, that it was
not she who had reason to feel
ashamed; that now he knew how deep
~ she had been wronged, he loved her,
AZ that were possible, more than ever
! before; and If Rosa would but consent
Z to make him happy he would endeavor
I'm the future to rec0mpense her for
her past and unmerited sufferings.
Rosa wept grateful tears and gave
her hand to the noble-hearted en-
{ graver; and Mrs. Willoughby, weeping,
too, and very abundantly, embraced
and blessed them both.
Our friend Tony was the only child
born of Rosa's second marriage-we
say second marriage, for real to her,
and in the eyes of heaven, had been
her first union-and Sydney and Tony
were left to believe themselves sons Of
+ the same father, and as wholly broth
ers by blood as were they in the love
which for each other they had always
cherished.
And IL James Drummond had cared
less for Sydney than for his own son
certainly he had never permitted that
fact to be perceived.
Sydney was cut out for Q gentleman
and Tony for an engraver, James
Drummond said; and the boys should
be placed in life according to their
qualifications.
And Mrs. Willoughby lived to follow
her daughter and her daughters true
husband to the grave-Rosa died first
and James Drummond pinned away,
and ere many months was laid beside
her
Six-and-tWenty-years have nassad