Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-22
,r,nTER XII-(Continued.)

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.,rborn is not much to tell, answered
tntbnr. YOU know that she ran away
De home hanon after her mothers death; you
UNI hon nine or ten years old. one
t IA work and lusted after the pomps
Ia.'r -onftios Of this wicked world. After
H. ,11iIo heard where she was, that she
WIZ" ~ and had been taken into MorWeL
|FIonsa to be nursed, and that there sne
ramoippj after her recovery. -, -,
strange" unused Jasper; she leu 40
,,5 was IA ken to Morwell, and l-lt was
t ..D sama Things repeat themselves; the
world moves in circle. 49,: Ero,s
~Eycrything repeats itself. AS IN rive )
o,yn the sickness led up to marriage OF
somcthtug like it, so will 1t De III ~
cosn This is what Mr.. jordan anu Eve
8dfd they went into the little oid cnapel'
snJ tooy each others hands before the
"itar and swore fidelity to each other;
.bot was aU Mr.. Jordan is Cathollc,
a,d rvoud not have the knot tied by
obnrcb parson, and Eve would not con-
pss to her name, she had that sense Oh
locpncy left in her"
Il go on" said Jasper.
We'll, then, about a year after this
heard where she was, and l went after
5or 10 Morwel but l did not go openly
had no wish to encounter Mr.. Jordan.
trfqd to persuade Eve to return with
me- 10 Buckfastleigh. l saw Eve and l
-oH hs my mind pretty freely. l will
say this for her-she professed to be sorry
for what she had done, and desired my
forgiveness. That, l said, would give
heron one condition only, that she forsook
her husband and child and came back to
& keen house for me. | could not bring her
toa decision. 50 l appointed her day, and
sail | would take her final answer on
4 that. But | was hindered going; forget
inst now what it was, but l couldn't so
that day
We'll. father, what happened?"
AS | could not keep my appointment
Il remember now how it was, l was laid
up with Il grip of lumbago at Tavistock-
| sent one of the actors there, from whom
had heard about her, with a message.
! had the lumbago in my back that badly
that was bent double. When | was able
10 20, on the morrow, it was too late;
she was gone"
Gone. Whither?"
"Gone off with the play-actor," answer
ed Mr. Babb grimly. 1T runs in the
Hood"
You arc sure of this"
Mr.. Jordan told me So"
Did You not pursue her?'
$40 what end? l had done my duty. l
had tried my utmost to recover my daugh-
Ter, and when for the second time she
played me false, l wiped off the dust OF
my feet as a testimony against her"
She left her child?'
Yes. she deserted her child as well as
her husband-that is to say, Mr.. lgna-
thus Jordan. She deserted the house that
dad sheltered her, to run after home
less, bespangled, bepainted play-actor. |
know all about it, The life at Morwell
was too dull for her; it was duller there
than at Buckfastleigh. Here she could
see something Of the world; she could
watch the factory hands coming to their
work and leaving it; but there she was
rs much ont of the world as if she were
in I.undy Isle. She had a hankering after
the glitter and paint of this empty world -
u cannot believe this. cannot believe
that she would desert the man who be-
frieuded her and forsake her child
You say that because you did not know
her You know Martin; would he not
do il? You know Watt; has he any scru-
PIES and strong domestic affections? She
was ike them; had in her veins the same