The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-13

afraid that he might some day forget himself and do so. The only way in which they could meet with anything like case and comfort to each other was as teacher and pupil. So Shirley decided that she wanted to take up her French again and lr the schoolroom was all gentleness and docihty-a model pupil-while Louis was the kind pedagogue laboring with his fa- vorite scholar.
 Meantime Robert Moore pursued the stern course he had marked out for himself, and deserted Caroline fell sick of fever. As soon as the news of her illness reached Fielhead Mrs. Pryor went to the rectory She had a long private talk with the rector, and ther installed herself as Caroline's nurse. Shirley. of course, came often to inquire about her friend and messages and in- quiries came from the Moore cottage in the Hollow. But the bedside of Caro- line was tended night and day by Mrs. Pryor. The fever left Caroline. but she lay listless and weak, with apparently no vitality remaining, with no desire to live on. One day Caroline said: T be- lieve that grief is and always has been, my worst ailment. I sometimes think that if an abundant gush of happiness came to me I should revive yet"
 Do you wish to live?" asked Mrs. Pryor.
 T have no object in life"
 You love me. Caroline?"
 'Very much-very truly-inexpressl- bly, sometimes. Just now I almost feel as If could grow to your heart"
 Then, if you love me-" said the mat ron, speaking rapidly in an altered voice. 'it will be neither shock nor pain to you to know that my heart is the tsource from which yours was filed
 that from my veins issued the tide which flows in yours. If I have given you nothing else, at least I have given
 you my life I am your mother. And you are mine-my daughter, my child.
 My mother. my own mother!' cried
 Caroline, and nestled close to that hear
 to which she had long been 8 stranger
 The mother crooned over her like a
 cushat dove fostering It's young and
 covered her with noiseless kisses. Il
 was indeed Carolines mother returned
 to her. The child had looked so like its
 father that the mother had been afraio
 of what the girl would develop into
 and had willingly given her up and dis
 appeared. But when she had seen Car
 oline at Fieldiead, had come to know
 her and realize what she was, all the long -pent-up mother feeling had come
 over her. Shirley had long suspected
 the true state of affairs and the widow had revealed herself to the rector upDh the occasion of her first coming to ths rectory as Caroline's nurse. Now ev erybody knew and Mrs. Heldstone tool : her residence for good. at the rector request, with her daughter Caroline With this new incentive for living, be gan rapidly to recover. She was stil
 sad and pensive--thinking of Robert but she gained strength day by day
 Just before Caroline had taken sick Al attack had been made by mob upol the Follows mill, an attack which ha : been repulsed by Robert and his mel with the aid of a half dozen soldiers h < had got over from a neighboring garri , son town. Robert had hunted down tn , ringleaders, had caused their arrest an :. had gone up to London to attend thei
 trial, not teasing his efforts until 0e ha seen them transported for life. Then h ; had been heard of in Birmingham. wher ii he was Investigating some new machin t cry. But he delayed his homeward jour ' ney inexplicably and everybody wondere l. why. The reason was that before he lei h Yorkshire Robert had proposed to shirle Il and had been rejected. He had propose ins. < -blaodsd ma ma, scaroely~ tsa