The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-26

otherwise would have quite crushed her.
 The disappearance of Alfred, the tragedy of the wedding morning, strip ped from Jane Hardie her fanaticism and her prejudices and awakened all her love for Edward Dodd. She be- came once more gentle, loving, Christian girl and flew to Albion Villa to mingle her tears with those of the unhappy inmates. She was not yet prepared to leave her father, but both she and Edward felt that eventually their great love would meet with it's reward.
 The straitened means of the Dodds could no longer afford their mildly luxurious villa life at Barkington. and 1t was decided that their household effects and the lease of the house should be sold and that the family should move to London and all go to work.
 When Jane Hardie went to pay her farewell visit at Albion Villa Julia with you. love. When will you come again? We leave tomorrow. I am selfish to detain you, but I feel as if my guardian angel were leaving me"
 Jane smiled T must go." she said. but leave better angels behind me. leave you this. Humble yourself under the hand of God. When it
  loving, Pray for faith to say with me, Lead us by a way we know not
 A few minutes later Jane was car ried back into Albion Villa-dying. Soon after she left the gate she had encountered old Maxley coming along with crazy, bloodshot eyes. and fol- lowed by the usual rabble of jeering boys. Jane left the sidewalk to ex- postuIate with the most cruel animal .-fha thoughtless boy. Old Maxley saw her coming, saw in her face the linea- ments of the man who had driven his wife to death. and in frenzy he fell upon her with his club.
 Richard Hardie, sent for in haste. found his daughter lying ashy pale on a little bed In the drawing room of Albion Villa. Poor papa" she said, and then. turning to Julia, murmured Let me sleep"
 If Hardie had an unselfish thought for any one in this word 1t was for this dying girl. above whose couch he bowed his head in an agony of grief Here was the family he had wronged, the child he loved. and. thinking of all that he had done and that this was the end of 1t, he was shaken for once
 He saw with awe that mightier hand than mans was upon him. Before her death Jane revived for a brief in terval and then the timid girl, woh once would have screamed at scratch, met the King of Terrors with smiles and triumph. For her the grave was Jordan and death but the gate of ever lasting life.
 Though Hardie felt the hand of an avenging heaven upon him, he would not bow to It. Cruched, hating him. self and life, he still sought to cast off the burden of remorse and guilt He went to London and plunged wildly into speculation.
 shortly afterward the Dodds. too, were settled in London. Edward soon found. what many a young man has found before and since, that while there is plenty of work to be done in A great metropolitan city. all the world seems to be competing for the honor of doing 1t and only exceptional ability can command a hearing in the indus trial Babel After a narrowing ex- perience he finally joined the fire de- partment. and was exceedingly glad to get there. In fact, 1t was only because of his heroic work as a volun- teer at a big fire, which called atten- ton to his coolness and courage, that he was admitted to the force
 Mrs 'Dodd succeeded because of her exceptional skill in getting work as a dressmaker: and the family now being provided for with Edwards salary what Mrs Dodd could earn and the part of her income which was not necessary to maintain her husband at the ex- pensive private asylum, Julia gave up her unsuccessful attempts to become governness and with a broken but humble heart settled down as a dis triet worker among the poor
 Captain Dodd was confined in Dr. Wolfs asylum. Drayton House. in a London suburb, and thither Julia and her mother used 10 go at stated inteF- vals on mournful pilgrimages. The captain was a mild, harmless lunatic and called himself William Thompson able seaman, captain of the foretop. sir. just come aboard" In that asy- lun1, too, after being shifted about from