Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-06-16

"BetteI! better. L love nor mor'
and mOre."
"Aud DO you think she loves yor
in returnp
"LOyes me in return?'
"Aye,-what do you think abou
| iIi' ii know It,"
you know she loves youi"
"Yes.n
"Aud you know that deep dowr
in her heatt she holds your love
most sacred treasurer
"Yes, l know IT.
"Then yOu must admit that tht
trouble of this morning came fIOn
no i'll. feeling at heart?'
"Of course not"
"It was but a surface squal, fol
which you are very sorry"
A moments hesitati on, ant
tben-"Yes, yes,-I am heartily
sorry"
"Now mark me, Clarence, ant
answer honestly: Don't you think
your wife is as sorry as you are,
81 cannot dOnbt itD
SIS She not probably, in The
secluslOn Of her home, suffering
more keenly than YOU are7"
81 doubt that, Mr.. Wardle. A
all events, hope she may not bt
suffering more"
VERY well. Let that pass. Nor
know she is bearing her part of th'
burden ?"
"Yes,-I Know that
"Aud now. my boy, do you re-
aiize where the heaYiest part of The
burden is lodgedt"
Clearence looked upon his in
terlOcutOr wOnderingly.
"If the storm had all blown over
and YOU knew that the SUP would
shine when You next entered YOU
home,y you would not feel unhappy ?
Clarence assented.
"But continued Wardle, you tesl
that there will he gloom in YOU
home wien sou return"
The young man bowed his Eea'
as be murmured an Affirmative.
"Because," the merchant added
with a touch of parental sternness
10 his tone, "vou are resolved L
carry it tht re-"
Clarence looked up IN surprise
IL carry III"
"Aye,-yOu have the burden II
your heart, and you mean TO carr,
il home. Remember, my boy,
have been there, and / know al
about it. have been very fOolisl
in my lifetime, aud have suffered
[ Suffered until / discovered n.
folly, ana IN on IresOlved to suffe
no more. Upon looking the maj
ter squarely and honestly in tb
face, | found that the burden
which had so CALLED me hal bee
sel(-impossed. OF course such bni
dens can be thrown off. Now 20
, have resolved that you will &
home with n heavy heart and
dark face. You have no hope tha
\ our wife will meet you with
smile. And Why ?-because yO
know that she has 10 partlcnla
cause for smiling. You know ths
her neart Ia burdened with th
same affllction which gives sou s
much unrest. And 80, you al
fully assured that you arc TO flu
INOur home shrOuded IN gloon
Aud furthermore, you don't kno
when that gloom will depart, an
p. when blessed sunshine of love wi
- burst IN again. And why don
!; you know 2 Because it is not no
6 IN your heart to weep the clou
l. away. You can say to yourself.
Il 81 Can stand it as long as she Ca
s. Am ] not righl?"
Clarence did not answer
= words.
d 81 know | am right pursu,
- Tue WcTcDdntS 'dDu very ike
your wife is saying to ! erself Il
II same thing, so your hope of sn
- sine does not rest upon the within
Il ness to forgive, but upon the in
W blIty to bear the burden. By al
IS by 1t will happen, as it has ha
pened before, that one ofthe twa
a will surrender from exhaustion, a
it Will be likely to he the weak
Ia party. Then there will be a collar
at and a reconciliation. Genera
an the wife fails first beneath the G
Le ling burden, because her love
keenest and most sensitive. L