Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-17

at my death my title and my estates.
Come to my arms, my dear boy, for it is
twenty-five years since 1 have held you
therer'
Clasped then in close, fond embrace,
father and son shed tears together-tesrs
of thankfulness and joy.
Thus, while Earle Glendenning still
mourned for the only mother he had ever
known, his mother by adoption, the
wound, so suddenly inflicted, was par
tally healed by the gift of fond faith
er, over whose feeble health and de-
Ginning days he now had a perfect and
tender right to watch and guard.
By the time they reached Gienden-
ming Hall Sir Fitzroy was able to walk
around with a cane, and really seemed
| to have taken a new lease upon health
and life.
With joy Earle marked this change,
and when he saw how intensely happy
he was thus to be restored to his own
home and rightful place, and how proud
to boast an honorable name and right
eous life, he thanked heaven and prayed
that he might be spared long to its en-
joyment, for his heightened days he
knew would add to his own pleasure, as
it was so sweet to own a fathers love, a
fathers blessing
But in his heart he felt that no hope
| of permanent change for the better could
be possible, as his maladies were in
numerabie; therefore. he redoubled his
watchfulnss over his beloved form,
standing ready TO aid by skill and adj
vice, as far as Providence would per-
NIT, to check the great weakness he
felt sure would ensue as soon as reac-
| ton, after all this excitement, should
| take place.
l need not describe the intense delight
of the lovers when they were again unit
ed, or the surprise Ethel felt on being
told that Earle had found a father since
he left her, and a new, but rightful,
name and inheritance. This news he had
not written, preferring to tell it in per-
son.
Sir Fitzroy was delighted with his flu
ture daughter-in-law, for Earle could not
rest until he had taken Ethel to the hall,
in order to make them acquainted.
| His feeble health made this visit per-
fectly proper, and certainly gave great
| pleasure to the old gentleman. From that
| time he, as well as Earle, looked for
ward to the wedding day, which was
finally decided to take place by the TWEEN
| tieth of October, with profound pleas
| ure.
A few days after their arrival at the
! hall, Sir Fitzroys told his son that he felt
| sufficiently recruited from his fatigue,
to visit the ruins, and see the room so
| long the prison of his unfortunate broth
er, and, leaning on Earle's arm, he pro-
ceeded to the mournful place.
| 1t was well a skilled physician attend
ed him on this sad visit, as he was great
ly overcome by all he saw, that so vivid
| ly told of the cruel sufferings one he had
/ loved had endured for twenty-five long
years.
| The tears he shed over each symbol of
| that long captivity were almost unnerv-
ing, and Earle led him away from the
spot, resolving that all these narrowing
remembrances should, if possible, be re-
moved from the place If not in his faith
er's lifetime, at least as soon as he had
passed away. But to his great surprise,
after he had rested and become calm,
Sir Fitzroy said voluntarily:
II never, never wish to go there again!
| have seen it all once, let that suffice.
Now l wish the old ruined part with the
concealed room torn down as soon as it
can be DONE"
Earle waited for no further orders,
but that very day engaged workmen to
at once demolish all evidences of that
sin-dyed spot, and soon an elegant gal
lery, for pictures and statuary, stood
where had been hitherto but neglect and
decay.