The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-27
complaints fired him beyond reason He
promised her freedom whatever It cost

him. s. Tee
And while he sat in his private
room considering the case. all the e.
burning within him, Basil stanhope
called to see him. He permitted him
to come into his presence, but he rose
as he entered and walked hastily a Few
steps to meet him. z
What doyou want here res SIR :s ~, he
my daughter. You shall not see
own care.
-, .7s she; is ny wife. No one can take
TT will teach you different lesson -
The law of God. - s. S,4#.es,sS.
stThe law of the land goes here.
You'll find it more than You can defy
.sSir. entreat you to let me speak
to Dora. SIS.
- will not. -. -,:..- ~
IT will stay here until I see her."
i Il Will give you five minutes.
do not wish to offer your profession
an insult; if you have any respect for
it you will obey me. !"
have / done wreng9o
- . "a man can be so intolerably right
that he becomes unbearab1y wrong. You
have No business with a wife and a
home. You are d. sight too good
for good little girl that wants a bit
of innocent amusement. Sermons and
Christmas trees! Great Scott, what sem
sibfe woman would not be sick of it
ala Sir, I dom + want another minute
of your company. Little wonder that
nay Dora is Ill with it. Oblige me by
leaving my house as quietly as posi-:
bic. ~ And he walked to the door,
flung it open. and stood glaring at the
distracted husband Go, he said.
- Go at once. Ny lawyer viii see you
to say to you.' s, : J s 81. E
home, He had private key to the
vestry in his church, and in it's dark
ness and solitude he faced the first
shock of, his ruined fife, for he knew
well all was over. All had been. He
sank to hefeor at the foot Of, the large
walls. Grief q siillimitahle wave went
> over him, and like a drowning man he
uttered an inartieulate. cry of agony
the cry of "a soul that had wronged
: to ruin: I'll be. had done must BE aban-
doned. AL he had won must be given
up. Sin and shame indeed it would be
if in his person a sacrament of the:
church should be dragged. thru "a ]. di.
vorce court. All other consi derations
paled before this disgrace. He must
honorable livery of heaven, ob1iterate
his person and his name. I, It was a
kind of death. s S =. -. 80 = - -. &,
:. After awhile he rose, drank some wa
ter, lifted the shade and let the moon.
light In. Then about that. little room
he walked with God thru the long night,
telling him his sorrow and perplexity,
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where the divine and human are one.
That night Basil Stanhope found it,
and henceforward knew that the bit
terness Of death was behind him, not be-
: fore. ri made my nest too dear On
earth, he sighed, land it has been
swept bare.-that is, that may build
in heaven. - y -. =:
- Now, the revelation Of sorrow is, the
dearest Of all revelations. Stanhopc
,s understood that hour what he must do.
4 No; doubts weakened his course. He
went back to the house Dora called
hers took away what he valued, and
while the servants We're eating their
breakfast and talking over his marital
: troubles. he passed across it's threshold
for the: last time. He told mo >one
where he was going; he dropped as
silently and dumbly out of the life that
had known him as stone dropped into
: . i
-. Ethel considered herself fortunate III
being from home at the time this dis
astrous elimination of Basil Stanhope i
married life was reached. On that
same morning the judge, accompanied
by Ruth and herself. had gone to- Len
OK to spend the holidays with some old
friends, and she was quite ignorant
Of the matter when she returned after
the New Year. Bryce was her first
informant. He called specially. to give
her the news. He said his sister had
been Too ia and too busy TO write. He
/ had no word of sympathy for the un.
happy pair. He spoke only of the anx.
iety, it had caused him. q He was nov
engaged, = he said, to Miss Caldwell
and she was such an extremely proper
innocent lady, and a member Of. st
| Jude IS, Il. had really been. a tryirs. time
| for Her. Bryce also reminded Ethel
that he had been against Basil Stan
hope from the first. e He had always
| known how that marriage would end,
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