The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22

chen take me with you, papa! I, she
cried, eagerly. oh, If can brighten
your life, soothe your sorrows, take ne
with YOU; and, far away from here, III
soae happier land, we can live un.s
known and unnOticed, blessed in each
others love, satisfied in each others
company, seeking nothing else, papa
nothing, nothing else. Life is too short
TO waste in endless warfare, in endless.
1 struggles. Dear papa, let us choose al,
last, safety and peace!''
IS It my child who speaks? y was the,
stern rejoinde my Sybil whose
heart and soul I have striven to mould
INTO a counterpart of my own? Or has
the soft wind Of luxury made a change
ling Inns OF the only being I have left to-
lover love 1t would be my fatemy dark,
EVIL fate-to lose even my child! Go
rom rom. me, then, if you will; choose your
e own way; separate your cause from
# NINE; live in safety and peace with the
pampered children of fortune; but be
child OF mine no more! My ways are
ways OF struggle, and darkness, and
peril, but 1 have followed them only to
lead you into the light. I can travel
them alone, for the past will have its
g stern duties even though the future
may have lost it's hopes. Go! Leave
me, sybll; you shall want for nothing.
+LaWless and homeless though your
rather be, he can provide for you amply
and generously. Take your own way.
Inere!'-he pointed up the steep hill,
on whose summit rose the stately cres
ct Give Towers-"there through peril
prlyatlon, death if need be, lies miner
oh, father, father!' she CRIED in
tones OF quivering pain, what cruel
words are these? You are the only be-
ing on earth who I dare-dare to love
you, whose wrongs have been my
wrongs, whose sorrows have been my
SORROWS, whose life has been my life!
rake me to your heart, father! Oh, let
no shadow or suspicion cast me out of
that one sure resting place! Take me
to your heart, fer, in sorrow or in glad
ness, l am your child-your Sybil-
yours. only yours!'
"Mine-only miner he repeat ted, clasp
ing her in his strong arms. "N1ine-on-
~ mine! Remember that, Sybl. Mine,
until honorably and proudly in your
own name and from your own fireside,
can give you to another, noble and
worthy enough to claim the daughter
our purpose gained, you are mine-only
mine! And now to business. dear: for
my own time is short. I must be far
from here before the dawn. Tell me
all you have learned while in my enc
mys house. You have done we'll and
wisely, so far. You have gained en-
trance into the foeman's camp You
have not Woman's' wit unless all the
weak spots in the Notifications are
known to you. Tell me all-all! Surely
my dead fathers curse falls in some
way upon the sunlit pathway of Robert
Give? Surely the shadow is not all.
all mine:"
And the dark eyes flashed with vim
dictive fire, as Basil Give drew his
daughter to seat on the base of the
monument beside him. and listened ca
gerly for her words.
For more than an hour they con-
versed together in low, agitated tones;
and when at length they arose, SYPHILIS
face wore a white, wan expression of
despair that would have touched any
heart not seathed by the s1nouldering
hres of long-cherished hate. i
60 back to- them, child" said Basil
Give, as Lis tall form lowered uD in
the shadow OF the granite monument.
"You must go back to them! 1t is moi
the time to falter and shrink now. Go
back to Robert Gives threshold, and
curse the bread he eats, the air he
breathes, with the presence Of the in
nocent being he has so cruelty
wroHged! If you have kept your eyes
shut and your ears closed, hitherto, let
them be alert and vigilant now. I
have striven, fairly, openly, to gain
justice at his hands. have tried by
threats and violence to wrest it from
him. Now we must meet him with his
own weapons-falsehood ard frauo.
We must steal OUT rights, since we may
not win them. Here, above my faith
er's ashes, renew the oath taken five
and-twenty years ago! Hate, undying
hate, against the man that has
Wronged me and mine! Hate that shall
1--we in my blood AS long as a drop Of it
flows in living veins! Hate that shalt
burn forever and forever, until
quenched by ample and unstinted Just
ice!'
Go be Continued)