The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
How Arthur Came Home
4, From China.

NI.NiOSTktea hundred years ago
#A&I there lived In Londonsn young
Vz9AI man named Clennan, who, be-
IESe7H ing an orphan had been brought
SYyGEGJ @up by hard. stern uncle, who
crushed and REFRESHED his youth
and ended by forcing him to marry y
cold unfeelinG stubborn wife, whom ne
did not In the least love. Soon after,
this marriage the nephew met beau
tiful young woman. also an orphan,
whom rich mar named Dorrit was
i educating to be a singer, since she had 4
beautiful voice The young husband, de-
MED all affection at home, fell In love
viii, her, and persuaded her TO give him
all her love insretnrn. And this, az az al
wrong things must do. resulted IN uns
happiness for them both.
a$ The singer had given him little silk
watch-paper worked in beads with the
initials D. N. b.. These letters stood Tor
the words ..Do not forget" This-tlittle
paper Though just how no one knew
was the clew by which the unforglyin nj
wife discovered her husband. $ secret. 81
Though she had never loved him her;
self. her anger was terrible. Under threat t
OF forever disgracing the woman "a e:shad
loved. {: Sic Completed him to sd ss..for r
China, taking oath that hel would !, ever
return or see her again. The " oman
abe made give UP to her her BABY boy
to rear as her own. promising IN return
that the little Arthur should be pro-
yidcd for and hould never. kno W. the
real history OF his parcntage.
Mrs Clennam. in taking this terrible
revenge OH her husband and the woman
he wrongfullyslovcd cheated herscsf into
believing that She was only the . ,istrl,
ment Of God, carrying out His viii ta g !.
punishment But in reality she was
satisfyiny the hatred of her own heart,
& ana wear by year she nursed this rn &c IN
ti,c gloomy house where she hcrsel & ca, car
ried on tho London branch Of her nus
II bands business. III a
sE4islt w,iy a dark and miserable mouse.
with sunkcn floors and backencd farnl-
tire N Il corner OF the sitting room
was an ugly old clock that was wound
once a week with an iron handle. AMI
on the walls were pictures showing ne
"plagues OF Egypt IN this melancholy
place the boy, Arthur clennaT,s grew up
in silence and IN dread. The only pie as
ure the grim woman. Whom5 ne o pen
IA he his mother allowed herself was
reading aloud from thoscaportons OF the
IS Old Testament which call for dreadful
nunishments to fall upon all enemies
Of the righteous. and in8these passages
she gloried. 8, Z
There were but two servants. an old
poma II named Affcry and Flintwinch, a.
short bald man. who was both clerk and
footman, and who carried his head awry
and alkcd in a one-sided, crab Ike way
ms though he were falling and needed
Dropping up like the house, Fin tWinch
was cunning and without conscl ence.5
Very few secrets his mistress had Which
n f1,aSy nfta r.
relied. :,
AS The years went 10y Airs Z 'lcnnants
cold gray eyes grew colder, her cold gray
hair grayer and her face moro hard ana
stony. She went out less and less, ana
finally paralysis made licr frcp 80 her her,
room and her chair u, q.
"a In such a N atmosphere Arthur ClenIlams
growing life was sad and he wondered
much why they lived SO lonely and why
his father must always lYesa the other
end Of the world and never come pa BACK OK 70
see them. 4. 4, q,
AT length tho uncle who had compelled
his fathers unha ppy. marriage died. anu,
feeling sorry at the last for the Wretchc y
Il singer whoc life had been ruined. he left
her in his will a sum OF money, Which NJ
her dca III, was to go to tho heir OF the
man who had befricnded and scducu ted
her-Nrr. Dorrit. This money, however,
Mrs. Clennam did not intend the woman
shc hated should get. She hid the. part
~ tho will which referred 10 It and she
and TlintwInch a greed u should nf1er he
tnroduced. The poor singer herself dled
before many years. and then tho money
should have CONC To Mr.. Dorrlt, but Of
course no, knowing nothing oftit. couiu
not claim IT. and the guilty score secret t. ~,
smained (excent 5 for rfsllr
fatFer In china> IN possess''e !, j, o. only
Mrs Clennnm and the crafty l'lintwlneii.
Al twenty Arthur was 3 mt TO China Q
his father, am, there lie was 18th y I'm
when the latter fell sick. On his dsa ~
Z bed his father remembtrel the money
which had not been restored, llo had not
strength to write bat MIN ms Gy'ns
hand ho gave the Fon his watch making
him promise to take 1t back \ Q Eng gland
8 tho SSire, whe. had sent hin, from her
IN such anger SO ma ny Ne'rS 5Ee-ore, ma
watch still5hel the \ tile sparer4 WITH 3ths
head initials TINT s'oH = %, 10 y stor5
get,asyand he meant tlllls 70 feMlnd ileY
r OF the wrong yet lnright9d
Many times thereafter 'ps h = NJ n IT - !.
to London, Arthur thought Of his ia TIERS
strange manner apl NOR ornti 1g3S' 2
5Ebo that some wrong lay on his conscience
calling for rePara ton, The l6na Guns
& to him, so thatdwEen he raw Mrs. Glen
nam again on Ills return, he spoke to
her OF his fnther's last hours. lie n sked
n her II she thought this lnlrht hc s"s PVT
atithIs her anger rose; she lpbraided him
and declared II he ever referred again
to- the subject she would renouncce him
y. as her son and cast him off forever.
III was her guilty conscience, Of
course, that caused this burst Of rage.
And Yet, Just because II was mot for the
moneys sake that she had donosthat evil
act. but because she SO hated the Wnri
man to whom it should have gone. she
continually tried to- convince herself that
she had acted rightly. ms y he instrument
OF God, to punish wtckedness, She had
told herself this falsehood over and over.
again so often that she lad ended ny
quite believing 1t. 85 I'D
matter. He WAS man now, and his
fathers death had made him master Of
quite a little fortune, He decided that
no would not carry on tho business. but
would make anew one for himself. This
resolution angered Mrs. Clennam greatly,
but she grizzly determined TO do so hers
SELF. and IN Arthur's place took IN the