The Lamar register., 1898-01-29

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and saw 1t knocked down to him. H1r
heart had bounded with fear. but nav
stood still at the sickening reality. On.
Heaven. had II come to this? Woe
she and her babes turned shelterless
from their fathers house, without o,,e
moments warning?
A hand was laid on her arm. Sre
looked up and met the snaky eye of
the administrator, black and twinkling
with triumphant malice: You do not
want the place. Aunt Ruth?" he aak-
ed, In his soft. treacherous voice. It
made no difference to him whether she
wanted 1t or not. but appearances must
be kept up before the wondering eyes
Of the public. She did not betray him.
she did not slap the dark-witched face
so close to hers; she did not utter one
reproach; she did not suffer her lips
to move. How the rest of the day pass
ed she never knew. She dlmly recol-
lected enacting the part OF hostess. of
seeing thousands of dollars fail into
the hands of her greedy husbands
kinsmen, and all under the sherin's
hammer and the form Of law-that coat
OF mail too often the armor of inius-
tice, She remembered the thrill OF re-
morse and terror at the silvery, happy
laughter of her little girl as she glided
hlther and thither. enjoying the
strange scene with childish delight
But night came at last TO that long
day. and she was alone-alone with her
grief and Indignation. Never had gath
ering darkness been so welcome.
In the adjoining room she heard the
sheriff and administrator as they made
out the papers and closed up the busi-
ness OF the day; but at length their
tones died out. The little prattler in
her crib bad ceased her wondrous tales
/ OF the great day. Ever and anon in
I the lulls OF the tempest storm without
she heard the loud. monotonous sounds
/ that told the tired administrator slept
well after that days deeds. Not he
the one TO follow too closely the foot
steps OF his great exemplar. He did
| not so out and hang himself. but he
got himself to his soft bed and slept
soundiy. at peace with himself and his
/ work
But how with the victim OF his
treachery. lying PROSTATE on the
hearth in her roomi From the moment
she had felt herself alone she had
given up to the passions that had been
restrained by n powerful effort OF
/ pride and will "Forsaken OF God and
mani" she muttered And this the re-
ward for course OF strictest honor and
integrity.
How proudly she had repulsed their
\ repeated advances to unite with them
/ In defraudIng the creditors OF the es-
\ tate. and how. when wearied out with
their opportunities, she had told them
4 that for all the whole race ever had
or might possess she would not betray
trust, and to the menaces of her inter-
ests she had answered that she would
! trust in God She had trusted Him.
but had He helped herr Her proud
I heart, full OF despair and wicked re-
beilion, needed no words to speak Its
answer. Memory played like lightning
| with the sunny hours of her past life.
The carefully taught child of pious
mother. she could not recall the time
when great moral lessons were not as
familiar as the songs of her childhood.
AS she had grown up. caresses and
kindness had been showered upon her.
One short year ago and those who now
insulted and wronged her had fawned
around her with honeyed words of fat-
terry, and he who had never opened
his lips but in blessing. whose every
accent had been love and kindness, was
silent in death. How could he lie so
still and yet so near that, might the