Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-07-19

lis pride and haugbtiness. though
i these qualities had been kept in the
background by the gentle teachings of
j her aunt: and when he attempted TO
! thwart her dearest wishes so openly
and daterminedly. her pride and viii
+ We're aroused. and her soul opposed
IN al its native ferceness to his own.
That night she fed, The morning
brought a letter from her, saving that
! she had chosen TO share poverty with
+ her lover. rather than enjoy wealth
without him At the same time she
prayed her father not TO east her Ut
terly from his heart, but TO think OF
her in kindness and mercy, for the
sake Of the long and happy years they
had left behind them forever.
Marion was by no means one to be
discarded and forgotten where she had
once been loved, and though at first
her stern old father forbade all men
/ ton of her name and threatened TO
disinherit her at once, her memory.
gentle, kind and loving rs she had al
ways been till that fatal night grad
ually disarmed him. and by degrees
they came to speak Of her again around
the home hearth, and to send many a
loving wish and thought to follow her
/ in her wanderings.
1t may be that her father felt that
he had driven her to desperation by
his harshness, for as time softened the
first sting of agony, he grew more kind
and gentle, and often encouraged his
faithful hOusekeeper to sit and talk
for hours with him OF her they had
both loved so well At that time, if
she had returned he would gladly
have welcomed and forgiven her. But
an, as the poet says, ''if only the dead
could know at what hour
ITO come back and be forgiven"
They do not know. nor do the liv-
ing. till the appointed time has gone
by. and either the forgiveness or the
time for receiving it has passed away
No tidings came directly from Marion
her father did net even know the
exacs place of her residence. a flying
rumor reached him now and then.
bur all was uncertain and mysterious;
and at last even this scanty Informal
ton ceased. and her name was spoken
softly and tenderly. rs
The household name
OF one whom God has taken"
Her father mourned for her silently,
but sincerely and all could see by the
bending of The stately form and the
silver threads that glistened in his
jetty hair. how the arrangement. and
silence. and separation were eating his
very life away,
Her life should have been a happy
gentleman who is supposed TO ne
mixed up with the affairs of mortais.
who must think. have laughed in
his sleeve when chance sent a young
widow TO dwell in the vicinity of the
newly married pair.
She was a woman of good birth and
high family, though so reduced In cir
cumstances as to be obliged to add to
her scanty income by private tuition
, in the more genteel families around
| Baniey. She was a fine classical schol-
ar. an artist. an authOress. and IN
addition. danced like a fairy. played
and sunk like an angel and rode like
Die Vernon herself. Her tall, elegant
! figure. her 5eep mourning. the easy
grace of her motions and the dignity
! of her manners had already moved
George Vernon strangely and though
, she was a brilliant rather than beau
tiful women. With her wondrous smile
: her flashing eyes. her bewitchiua
, manners and easy grace. she placed
him where she had so often placed
his betters-at her feet.
. The dusky gentleman of whom
have already alluded. having his i'm
plements upon the ground. lost no time
in using them. Mr. Vernon and the
goFerness met often. and it needed Il.
spoken word to tell the enchantress al
he was feeling His words-his signs
the long ardent chances of his hand
some hazel eyes. told the story only
too well. and smiling sometimes t.
herself at this new proof of her power
of fascination, she gave him sons
Slight encouragement from time to
: time He did not love her, and yet
at idot, uON HE
, room at midnight. thinking while she
I was sleeping quietly and would hav.
g laughed heartily at his employment
; had she known 1t. He was only dom
r what a thousand men have done be
/ fore him-what a thousand more vii
9 do after him-finging himself at tn,
I feet of a woman who would lead hin
I through tempest of passion and leave
y him at last bankrupt of faith, of feel
@ ing and honesty. and all else that t,
T the noble heart makes life at all worth
n living.
CHAPTER KIN.
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