The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

had sent in his resignation of all his Cd
pointments. There are people who say
there is nothing in fate The archdeacon
says his conviction was too strong to re-
sist-he felt that his work was done in
his present grooves. He is worn out and
weary and she is mere shadow of what
she was AT all evnts, he has given up
everything, and you, my dear old bow.
are going to marry them as soon as the
license can be got and a gown made for
her to be married in. And 1 want you
she went on, stopping my mouth with a
! sort hand-"to let me have her here where
| she will be safe, and pet her and make
| much of her until he takes over the re-
| sponsibiity from my hands altogether.
VIII you, Joe?'
OF course had to do it, Not that 1 ap-
| proved of the whole business or any part
of It; but Rosey had set her mind upon ii,
| and the archdeacon was equally deter
| mined, and she-oh, we'll, you know what
a woman looks like who has had a. bad
time and has got to the end of ii and into
blaze of sunshine.
1--WE shall go away, abroad. and live
quiet life for year or two, until Mill
cent has got over it a little, and have
| recouped myself for all the strength 7
have squandered during the last three
| years" the archdeacon said to me on the
evening that Mrs. Harvey was establish
Su III Jul nOuSCs lOiQ the DlSnOD GXerX-
| thing this morning. He has very good
| about it, though he persisted in calling
u sacrifice on my part IL really is not
| that. l should have had to go. Sir Fer
gus Tiffany is most positive and insistent
about it, and have the greatest possible
talth In MIN. The fact is 1 have come
| to the end OF my mental and physical
tether. For years past have been taking
everything in the way of vitality out Of
| myself and putting nothing in, and the
| machinery was bound to have rest and
repair or else go to pieces altogether II
satisfies both Of US that this definite de-
cision was come to before knew that
there was the very smallest chance of
| her ever coming into my life again.
"Archdeacon," began-when he put his
| hand on my shoulder, looking down on me
for he was a much taller man than L
with radiant light shining in his won,
derful eyes.
Dallas, my good well-tried friend" he
said, has 1t ever struck you how wonder
fully God manages things for us when we
trust Him. loved that woman when had
no idea of the real obstacle that lay be-
tween US; l loved her with aE NV heart
and soul. At first I was too broken with
my disappointment and my baff1ed hopes
to see my way clear; then began to feel
that IL it was a happiness not for me 1
would not pine, would give 1t up, would
try to find, aye, and / would find. consola-
ton in my work, in giving to others a
solid foundation for such happiness as
had been denied to me l have worked
Dallas-but you know 1 need not tell YOU
that. L was happy in doing it, as happy as
ever had hoped to be. I always thought
of her as some patient martyr, to whom
Fate had not been kind, but whose honor
was tiawless and unstained. And God ar
ranged it all so simply and yet so per-
fectly Just think. If had given UP nv
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woman who would not be received by
my people, she would always have felt
that she had been my ruin.
But the deed was done before l knew
done as a stern necessity and not in graft
ficatlon of self. MiMcent feels now and
has right to feel that she Is as neces-
sary for me as 1 for her. We shall go
away and travel about from place to place
and it is very unlikely that anyone here
Will ever know that Mrs Harvey and Mil
iicant Roleston are one and the same per-
son. Even those to whom she has been
in bondage do not know that she was act
ually married in her husbands own name
of Harvey, or what her maiden name
was; that being one of the conditions she
imposed upon him at the time of the mar
rage. Therefore, they are not at all likely
to connect her with the Mrs. Harvey who
will be married next week to Archdeacon
Lister. We shall stay abroad for years,
chO are hCNCA ilfAS1S W ldll III with any OF
the set again. Being fairly rich can take
my own time and chance, and when am
myself again, serve the God who has
been SO merciful 10 us both in my own
way"
So I married them and they were to-
gether and happy at last Northtowers peo-
pie wondered little when they heard that
Archdeacon Lister was actually married,
but the announcement in the papers did
not tell very much. "On the Bird inst, the
Rev. Mervyn Lister, formerly Archdeacon
of Northtowers, 10 Millicent Harvey
daughter of the late Henry Warning, of
South Hampstead"
1t was not until this appeared in the
newspapers that l CHANGED to tell Rosey
of my last serious conversation with the
archdeacon.
"Ah, now l understand why he asked me
10 sing that song the night before they
were married." she exclaimed.
"And it was--?"
She went to the piano and sang in her
sweet voice, that was light and tender like
herself
1T is not because your neart is mine
mine only, mine alone.
1t is not because you chose me, weak and
lonely for your own:
Not because the earth Is fairer and the
skies spread above you
Are more radiant for the shining of your
eyes that 1 love you!
But because this human love, tho true
and sweet, yours and mine,
Has been sent by Love more tender, more
complete, more divine,
That it leads our hearts TO rest at last,
in Heaven far above you
Do take you as a gift that God has Civ
en-, and l love you!"
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