The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-15

lie IuUE leT HdLu@. LOOKING into h6f
eyes incredulously. Il m afraid | donst
understand he said. .,Who sent You
to me?
That Is ungenerous OF you.
.'Ah forgive me- he cried quickly
II am ungenerous indeed. But your visit
is such surprising one; YOU come like
light into this dreary place
Surely it should not be dreary. Mr.
Felgate. Where one does the work one
loves
.sWork [ have long ceased to remem-
Der the better meaning of the word
But that should not be, she said
earnestly. Indeed, have heard so
much about you that = She stopped,
confused.
And having heard 50 much about me-
you come here he asked, gravely.
Eyes, because want to help you, Mr.
Felgate.
ITO help me?'' Iouv We set yourself
task, | fear, Miss Roughton
'.Ah. please don laugh at me.
Laugh at you, child am nearer
to tears than laughter, | think did
not know that there were such women as
YOU left in the world; it has not been my
fate to find them Come-tell me how
you will help me?
He was 81 gentle and so much moved
there was such crave consideration III his
ewes. that she began to lose her first fears
of the monster If it be in the power
of any woman-and | have heard it SAID
that Il woman has such power-l Il try to
draw YOU back to better things You
must not mind if | speak plainly. II Try
to be your friend, if sou will let me; | II
make you take up your work again, tor
the work sake. She stamped her foot
and set her small white teeth hard. tome,
! is it a bargain? She held out her hand
to him.
In the name Of all sweet aud holy
things. he answered her soemuiy. yes.
That was the beginning Of the strange
business: the end was to come IN another
fashion. She began to discover soon the
magnitude of the task she had SET herself:
to see that this was not Il thing to he lightly
taken up and as lightly dropped. Small
and fr,;l woman is She was. whose life had
hitherto been almost rrrposele>s. she crew
to understand that she held this man :
soul in the grasp of her two hands; that
he chung to her with the desperate energy
of one suddenly awakened to his peril,
pleaded to her with those weary eyes Of
his to watch and have faith in him.
Mara th.n Ill :, ro,cu;,oI copstan, tact
and .,.a Hi. lol;,,t. husiups. Even
her power sometimes wen! for nothing. and
the whole gamut of alter-repcntance and
renewed PROMISES and PRAYERS had to be
cone through. Times there were. too
when serious measures were vain when
iesiipu served better than PRAYERS. when it
was possible to laugh him out Of some new
reckleSsness or folly.
Then came -, new deyelonmrpt Toryue,
ho.,,, =, ,,,. I, bor inno.op,.,- in rbe
Loommo,. If har dayirn to helm this NAM
10 LaJ ,o+ tLon,h, If ,h,+ possibility
ber cIpar vouno sonI refused TO take in the
.trsnoane.s IF ha, visits f. = man AGAINST
whom :, many doors were closed That
sha believed in bim-believed in the
Swee:cr better naturc Of him-had been
sniff Giant 70 hcr
Tho fr;and-a discreet married woman.
worldly w;se--wbo had first mentioned
R;cbord Ealoata,s name was the first TO
,o;co tha ,rbiynor;nos She tonk the oirl
.s;do and sbarnI,, Questioned her
NV Eolaato !. INV friend ranIied
nor, p,uobto, bor f,ca > LITTLE trouhled
=, u-o.o
=. i''''" ,''''' "a ,."' 'l'''>. I.', -,
no. Nv ny H., ,';",%, nt,,r, nI
i1o'''o''' u '"' '',.',,,'' ~
- ,n,. n o,r .,n.u vnrIJ t,lI vou go
whom Ii. hanna v,v FIRST r,nntionaI vo,
must snrelv remember thar.
.Yo. romombcr think that first
made mo ,o +, him wanted 70 HELM
hin,
..rh,t .,,rr ~ o,;..;on,r,- oilnr, ! .,.,,a,.-
,u,. onl,. afTa.taL i, ana f,.h;,r when :,
w,n,n undertakes the nions office, =
l,nahoJ bor fr;and and tb,t fashion is
NV tnucb;no tha mans heart Friendship
won, Jn ! nre,chinn wont do it-Iove
mav
:.Love =, cried Dora startled You
are talking nonsence. I'm sure no such
thought has ever entered my mind-or his
We are Just good friends, cannot you I'M
derstand that ? II believe in him.
and-and hecause-because-- |
believe in him-well-h works-and
talL. 70 mo about his work apd-O, vour
mind rms in very narrow groove T.
"A groove that has been proved again
and again to be only well-worn road, my
dear with experience for finger post. -
I. a, ~, tho oo,,.;oo Of her next visit
DILL Eolooto. .trd;o that the lesson
% n i: ha' .,'N Sho La1 hnnn adn;rinr
was ui''''' .p.''e. oo,,,,la
Il p1ctultpl HIS hhi|h ""' "N''i'S