The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-04-24

1NNbA AhA W AAAAAGAJs
Some time ago." she said abrupt
", when was quite a girl, heard
you preach sermon. The text was.
forgive us our trespasses.'"
81 remember every word of it."
! he answered. 81 preached 1t at st.
! Mary Abbott's. hope you liked it.
"Some OF it." she said, mot all. !
have not a very forgiving nature"
Then it must be matter of great
self-congratulation for you when you
persuade yourself to be lenient to
those who Gave trespassed against
you Lady Althea-you have son."
Her face hardened, and she said
mentally: II thought SO; was sure
of it," Aloud she answered: Eve
won't speak Of him, If you please,
Bishop"
Il cannot calm any privilege OF
friendship yet" he said earnestly;
"but will you grant me the privilege
of an invalid and let me disregard
your prohibition?"
She was silent. The Bishops voice
was melodious at all times; with this
persuasive accent, this hint of APP
peal, it was Irresistible.
II have met your son." he said,
rising and speaking quickly; mot
! through Mrs. Elliot, as | see you are
! thinking, but by a singular chance.
A curate of mine in my first living
! died year ago, and his widow came
| to me recently to remind me of my
old friendship for her husband and
| to ask my advice. He was one OF
the best fellows that ever lived, and
l was glad to meet Mrs. Dereham
again. She had one daughter"
Lady Althea interrupted him with
a startled cry. EVA Dereham,t she
exclaimed, seriously, II have one son,
and sne has taken him away from
me forever"
IT trust not" The Bishops voice
was respectful but firm. "She is o
good girl, girl any mother-or moth
| er-in-law- be proud of. She
took situation as waitress, in tea
shop because they were almost starv-
! ing, and it has done her no harm
"She has been on the stage" pro
tested Lady Althea.
"And that did her no harm, either"
said the Bishop equally, though af-
ter a month of it she preferred the
tea shop. She is a lady by birth,
by education, by instinct-a lady in
every sense of the word. And she
loves your son enough to try to send
him away when she heard who he
was"
81 don't believe it," Lady Althea
broke out Cor, if she did, it is be-
cause she has learned Hugh,s nature
by heart She knew it would make
him more determined
| "You are unjust to her." said the
Bishop quietly. Forgive me for be-
ing frank"
"She has broken my heart" said
Lady Althea, bitterly.
! "Why?" The Bishop managed to
convey capacity for sympathy, COM
prehension and condemnation withal
| in this brief monosyllable.
"He came to me a week ago." said
1 Lady Althea, suddenly throwing her
reserve to the winds, "aad told me
without any preliminary that he was
| m love with an angel-who waited
| in a tea shop and was the daughter
of clergyman Was that not enough
4 to break any woman's heart? re-
minded him that he was ninth Baron
Bullen, and owed some respect to his
fathers ancestors, even without con-
sidering mine, and ! entreated him
to give her up. He refused. COM
| manded him He still refused. Then
/ told him to leave the room, and
never enter it again unless / asked
him to.
".Until you take back all the cruel
things you have said about Eva he
declared, I will never set my foot
inside this door,"
which door," interrupted the
Bishop.
| Lady Althea dropped her impas-
sionsd tone for the moment. What
does it signify?" she said, Impatient
~. ut was this very room as mat
ter of fact. said to him. take
| nothing back He knows that l have
never broken my word in my life, and
that | shouldn't respect him if he
breke his. So the thing is settled"
Her voice gave way in spite of her
pride, and she put her handkerchief
up to her face to hide the trembling
of an unruly lip.
Lady Althea, you are still quite
young said the Bishop earnestly, Sin
the very prime of your life, and you
are absolutely devoted to your boy
Can you contemplate living year af-
ter year without him?"
She nodded her head; she had been
too near breaking down to trust her
self again yet.
you know nothing about SASS
Dereham." he went on, except those
two facts. You may be the 'daugh-
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