Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-17

| treating flare Of hambeaux for run
ners carrying them were necessary on
/ those rough roads when dark. and the
breath Of tile dewy spring night fan
ned my face like wing of peace. and
regretted nothing very much which.
/ had happened in this world, SO that /
could come between that beloved girl
and the troubles starting up like poison
Gus weeds on her path.
But when entered the hall MADAM.
4 Cavendish having sent away the
slaves. ever to the little wench who
had been fanning her. with verify. be-
ileve, no more of consciousness as to
what was going on about her than a
jiInson weed by tii@ highway, called
me to her in a voice ID tremulous that
| scarce knew it for iers.
Harry, Harry she said, II pray
thee, come here Then. when / APP
! preached, hesitating, for had a.
shrinking before some outburst of fem
mime earnestness, which has always
intimidated me by its fire of helpless
ness and futility playing against some
account Of my masculine understand
i ing Of the requirements of cireum-
stances, allow to melt, she reached
up one hand like a little nervous claw
of ivory and caught me by the sleeve
and pulled me down to a stool by her.
side.
Then she looked at me, and such
i love and even alteration were in her
face as / never saw surpassed in it.,
even when she regarded her grand
daughter Mary, yet withal a cruel dis
tress and self upbraiding and wrath
at herself and me. Harry Harry,
she said, Il can bear no more of this. :"
Then. to my CONSERVATION, up went
her silken apron with a fling to her
old face and she was weeping under
it as unrestrainedly as any child.
I did not know what to do or say.
Madam ventured firmly, IF you
distress. yourself in such wise for my
sake, It's needless, assure, It's need
less and with as much truth as were
you my own mother.
ooh, Harry, Harry she sobbed out,
know you not that is why | cannot
bear it longer, because you yourself
bear it with no complaint?D Then she
sobbed and even walled with that pite-
BUSINESS of the grief of age exceeding
that of infancy, inasmuch as the
weight of all past griefs of lifetime
go TO swell it and it is EXCHANGED by
memory as well as by the present and
an unknown future. | knew not what
to do, but laid a hand somewhat tim
idly en- one of her thin silken arms
and strove to draw it gently from her
face. Madam Cayendish,' / said
"indeed you mistake if you weep for
me. AT this moment would change
places with no man in Virginia"
s'But | would have-I would have
your she cried out with the ardor Of
a girl, and down went her apron, and
her face, like an aged mask of tragedy,
not discolored by her tears, as would
have happened with the tender skin
of a maid, confronted me. Il would
have you the governor himself, Harry.
I would have you'll would have
Then she stopped and looked at me
with a red showing through the yellow
whiteness of her cheeks You know
what / would have, and ! know what
you would have, and all the rest of
my old life would | give could it be
so, Harry she said, and ! saw that
she knew of my love for her grand
daughter Mary
Then suddenly she cried out We
hemently: Not one word have said
to you about it since that dreadful
time. Harry Wingfield, for shame and
that pride as to my name. which is
a fetter on the tongue, hath kept me
still. but at last | will speak, for I
can bear it no longer. Harry, Harry, /
know that you are what you are, a
convict and an exile, to shield Gather
Inc, to shield a granddaughter of mine,
who should be in your place Harry
Wingfeld / know that Catherine Cav
endish is guilty of the crime for which
you are in punishment, and, woe is
me, such is my pride. such is my
wicked pride, that have let you suffer
and said never one word.
put her hand to my lips. Mad
am 1 said, you mistake; do not
suffer. That which you think Of as
my suffering and my disgrace is my
glory and happiness
''Yes, and why, and why7 Oh,
Harry, It's that which is breaking my
heart. IT'S because you love Mary.
tits because verify believe, you have
loved her from the first minute you
Harry kissing Madam
Cavendishss hand