Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-01

l SEdII venture 10 S@DC WORD Dy yOn
to my father white I am, that the
money is lost, and what l have under
taken.
Barbara tossed her head, and
flashed an indignant glance at him
out of her brown eyes.
4 cannot, I will not be porter Of
| lies
What ies?'
You did net lose the money WHY
deceive me? ] know your object in
way nook of England you could find.
You think that here you are safe from
pursuit. You made up the story to
| impose on my father, and induce him
10 engage you. o, you are very hon
Durable! discharging debit hate
crime, but I hate falsehood even
more
You are mistaken, Miss Jordan
The story is true
You have told the whole honest
TRUTH
I do not profess to have told the
whole truth. What I have told has
been true, though I have not told all
"A pinch of truth is often more false
than a bushel of lies. It deceives, the
other does not
Tt is true that lost the money con
fded to me. If you are going to Ash
burton, ask you, as a matter Of kind
ness-I know how kind you can be,
alas, and l know also how cruel-to
see my father
She laughed haughtily. This is a
fine proposition. The servant sends
the mistress to do his dirty work. ]
thank you for the honour She turned
angrily away.
Miss Barbara said Japer, you are
| indeed cruel
Am I cruel?' She turned and faced
him again, with a threatening brow.
| L have reason to be just. Cruel I am
not
You were all gentleness at one
time, when l was i'll. Now
| I will not dispute with you. Do
you except to be fed with a spoon
still? When you were i'll l treated
you as patient, not more kindly than
/ would have treated my deadliest
enemy. l acted as duty prompted.
There was no one else to take care OF
you, that was my motiye-my only
motive
When l think of your kindness
then, | wish / were sick again
A mean and wicked wish. Tireu
already. | suppose, of doing honest
work
Miss Barbara he said, pray let me
speak
Cruel, she REQUIRED to what he
had said before, without listening to
his entreaty. Tt is you who are cruel
coming here-you, with the ugly stain
on your life, coming here to hide it
in this innocent household. Would it
not be cruel iii a man with the plague
poison i'll him TO steal into a home OF
harmless women and children, and
give them all the pestilence? Had
suspected that you Intended making
MorWeIl your retreat and skulking
den, [ would never have passed my
promise to keep silence. would
have taken the hateful evidence of
what you are in my hand, and gone to
the first constable and bid him arrest
you in your bed
No. said Jasper, you would not
have done it. 1 know you better than
all humanity? Surely you feel pity in
your gentle bosom, Notwithstanding
your bitter words.
No. she answered, with flushed |
cheeks and sparkling eyes, no, I have j
pity only for myself, because l was
weak enough to take pains to save |
your worthless life |
Miss Jordan, he said, looking sor- |
rowfully at her-and her eyes fell
surely I have a right to ask some
pity of you. Have you considered |
what the temptations must be that be |!
set a young man who has been !
roughly handled at home, maltreated |
by his father, reared without love
d SOuiIS uidu Will d SOuI DOuuu1hS
with hopes, ambition, love of life, ,
with a heart for pleasure, all which |
are beaten back and trampled down
by the man who ought to direct them? !
Can you not understand how lad |
who has been thwarted in every way, :
a mother to soothe him in |
trouble, and encourage him in good, |
driven desperate by fathers harsh !
ness, may break away and transgress? |
Consider the case of one who has
been taught that everything beautiful |
delight in music, in art, /
in nature. a merry gambol, a joyors /
warble-is sinful; is it not likely that |
the outlines of right and wrong would !
be so blurred in his conscience, that |
he might lapse into crime without |
intent?'
Are you speaking of yourself, Or are
you excusing another"
I am putting a case
Barbara sighed fnvo1untarily. Her |
own father had been unsympathetic. |
He had been Indifferent.
I can see that there were tempta- |
lions to one so situated to leave his |
home she answered, but this is not
a case of truancy, but of crime
You judge without knowing the |
Then tell me all. that l may form !