The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-26

1 There came. too. the thought that by
| pinching az no Tulliver ever had pinch
| ed before he might save enough out OF
his poor salary to pay on some OF his
many remaining debts which had not
been satisfied by the SALE This pros
| pect decided the proud man. to whom
the thought OF being defauiting debt
or was ss shameful crime. He ac-
cepted Wakem's offer OF thirty shill-
| tngs q week.
on the night that he made his de-
cision he called to Tom to bring the
great family Bible. which was almost
the only possession that the sale had
| left in the household.
Write. Tom" said he. write az
your father. Edward Tulliver, took SER
| vice under John Wakeun. the man as
had helped to ruin him, because want
ed to die in the old place, where was
horn and my father was born. And
then write as / don't forgive wakem
for all that; and for all TIL serve him
honest. I wish evil may bcfall him.
Write that. And now write as you'll
remember what Wakem's done to your
father. and you'Ii make him and his
feel It II ever the day comes. And
sign your name"
"oh, no, father, dear fatheri" said
Maggie, sinking down by his side. TITS
wicked to curse and bear malice. You
htlOuAQU uA4AC 4Otu WEltG IuALs
BE quiet, Maggie" said Tom. 81
SHALL write III"
To save something toward paying
his creditors became the one object OF
Tuliiver's life nov. He became meta
morphosed into the keenest grudger
OF morsels. Mrs. Tulliver could not
economise enough in their food and
fring to satisfy the once open-handed
man, and he would eat nothing but
what was of the cOarest quality.
Tom. though depressed and strongly
repealed by his fathers business and
the dreariness OF the home entered
thoroughly into his fathers feelings
about repaying the creditors. He had
obtained employment with the big st.
Ogg's firm OF Guest and Company, of
which his uncle Deane was q member
and he brought his savings home reg
ularIy to be put in the little tin box
where the shilIings mounted up with
such pitiful slowness to pay a debt Of
helf a thousand pounds.
The new life was terrible to Mag
wie--Maggie with her strange dreams,
with her hunger for love. Her father
no longer stroked her hair as he used
to do when she sat down in her low
stool beside him at night, though he
was more dependent on her than ever.
Tom. weary and fun OF his new busi-
ness ambitions, did not respond to her
"a rAsses. The poor mother remained
hopelessly bewildered under the blow
that had fallen on her placid exist
The girl fell back on the meagre
remnant of books that had been left
hy the creditors. She studied Virgil
and Euclid and spent her days in the
deIds with the Latin dictionary and
Toms thumbed school books One day
abe CHANGED on q worn copy OF homas
q Kempis and she pushed her heavy
hair back from her sad brow as IL to
see a sudden vision more clearly. That
chronicle OF a solitary. hidden anguish,
struggle, faith and triumph came to
her in her need and filled her heart
with the writer's fervor of renuneia-
tton. -tN
Her new inward life shone out IN her
face with q tender, soft light that
mingled itself as added 1oveliness with
the enriched color and outline Of her
bIossoming youth. Maggie was begin-
ming to show q queenly head above her
old frocls. and her mother felt the