New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-11


point, that he did not dream how much it meant to
her whose and whose misfortune-t to
give little yet to feel deeply. He thought too much
about Miss Philippa to think greatly of Miss Abby.
1t was David's misfortune to imagine himself
hopclesSly in love with the present object of his
vagrant attention He lived in successive states of
ecstatic emotion. He ready to go TO the limit
in any of his cphemeral passions. while they lasted.
One morning, Miss Abby, was leaving her room
for the days duties, note handed To- her by old
black Asa, the majordomo of the diminished house
hold The ancient butler stated TO his mistress that he
had been ordered by Miss Philppa to give 1t TO her
when she awakened Miss Abby questioned further
When did Miss Philippa give it to YOU ASA"
Late las night, Miss Abby, aftuh you in
= bed ma am"
With deep foreboding Miss Abby turned away
from the old man. went into the library and opened
her letter Phlippa and David Graham had run
away They going to Richmond where they
would be married then New York and so for a
time out of Miss Abby's life. David. wrote Phil
ippa "begs your forgiveness. He knew that you
would consent to my marrying him. and he
pretended make love you order that you might
notice us He knows of course that you
through his trifing. and that you did not care
Thank Cod" was Miss Abbys first thought
that never betrayed what felt for HIM"
Miss Ably did not phrase it further. but she might
have completed the sentence thus That he did not
know her heart broken. her soul crushed, more
10y the fact that nc had used her to cover another
love affair by the consciousness that her love had
been given to him honestly in answer to his play.
There was nothing that Miss Abby could do except
suffer in silence There comfort TO be found
for a wound like this but she had the courage
make no moan or outbreak There naught but
shadow at Heronshaw. sunshine gone from it,
and for Miss Abby we'll.
Nor did sunshine return when Miss Phiippa came
back She had gone away in the spriugtimc; 1t had
again. a second summer had passed. and It was
winter once more One night 1t stormed. Miss
Abby alone in the library. her Bible in her lap
open bat neglected typical Of Miss Abhys condition
She dreaming even the stcrncst-thank Cod
sometimes may dream Into her iron soul borne
the consciousness OF ootstep upon the gallery out
side She listened \ hand fumhlcd at the Stats of
the shutters that covered the long French windows.
Miss Abby and lifted the lamp. The light showed
her womans face CHASTITY white behind the lcvelcd
Stats of prisoner without hope staring through bar
Miss Abby put the lamp down upon the table
quietly, stepped to the window. opened it. pushed
back the shutters, and picked up the form that lay
huddled the porch and carried it into the house
That night Phippas baby was born. That night
the little soul went in the that had brought its
mother there And the mind of Philippa went out i'll
the darkness with the soul of her child. When the
long illness over Philippe child herself
The past was wiped out of her recollection There had
been a clean-vas it a mercifu ?-erasurc. There
nothing in the present. She babbcd and smiled
and spoke an infinite deal of nothing with not
the two grain of Gratiano i'll her chat. Out
wardy she grew prcttier than ever mentally she
nothing.
There were two shadows in the house instead of
thereafter But comfort had Miss Abby.