The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-02-04

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that Nnlse again, saNins soisls' hh i@i'
Matt Wat al yaa hsar what hss.
10 a., THINK not u nae, think only ~
hrF, II - she Sea alr ralltsi ni'nA y"
Iasrnso; your sisieF. EysyA,
Tl,osnas yirlist ia him a. he had 10 his
father. ~ sank dpAn bsheaih that "a
Isi,ieni hand. and his brother ieok ~ The
tale.
"H.rhn had v0isv like hlni, ia
lihos9 DAYS l.ri0Ie fathers rluin' she u.a.i
ilo IN Oh John l'oindrgIsT's hn1ise eth
melely l. who, AZ a bais vac slndinns,
rather than artistic, thought she sang loo
mueh Cor a gal Nhosr father Nas foiiins
away In a Southern prison, Hut when
about "a rchukr her, ! remembered III
lwanl Nissan, and aas silent, faF u wac
his love which made her glad, and Ia HIM
| wished every Happiness, lot be Nas swpd,
aud honest, aud kind 10 me, She Was
eighteen then. ani h.au,llnl, 90 ~ ! was
bound 10 believe, since every man Looked
At her even old John folndeNief though
be- never looked AZ any other woman, nei
even n. avn VIE Aud she sas good.
too aud pure, | SWEAR. i0f her blue eyes
never ialteiel IN laoking lnin mine nni'l
one ,lay when my i'oi' hog well ! ~
member i'=ihty nui only ial,rir'i, hui
shIank hei0Te me IA such l.Trnf, that h"A
though I wa, | knew that something ter
iihl-, something unprecedented had hai..
prnrd. aud thinking my one thought,
asked II n. had reviewed bad news fron
father. llcr answer Wa Mortified moan,
hat Il might have be.n a shrek. Our
father Pray Gnd ~. may ncN-r ssr him
or hear from him agiin, II you love hum.
II you love nae, pray he may die IN PRISON
rather than p'iurn here Ia ,er me a. ] am
now.
Il though, ,hc had gone mad, and per
haps she had for moment; for at my lonk
Of startled distress change took place ~
her She remembered my youth, and I
laughing, or TRYING to laugh away her /
ffcnyy. uttered some hurried word | /
failed 10 understand, and then. sinking ai 4
my knee laid her head against NY slde, |
crying hat she was not we'll: that she had |
experienced for a long time secret pains
aud great inward distress. and that she .
sometimes feared she wa not going 10 live 4
long for all her songs aud merry ways and
seeming health and spirits.
Not live, Evelyn II was an neon.
ceiyahlc thought 10 me. a boy. looked
at her and seeing how pale. how incom
prchensibly pale she was. my heart failed
me. for nothing hut mortal sickness could
make such change IN any one IN week.
IN q day. Yet how could death reach her,
loved ~ she was by Edward. by her
father. and my me. Thinking to rouse I,
her. ! spoke the formers name. But II I
was the last word should have uttered.
Jrouching a. II | had given her blow, ID
she put her two hand. out shiieking faint,
IL: Not that, Never that DO not 4
speak his name, Let me never hear of
him or see him again, ! am dead-do
i0u not understand me!-dead Ia all the
world from this day-except 10 you she
,uddenly sohbed, except TO you'' And
till ! did not comprehend her But when {
understood. as soon did. that no men. t
ion was 10 be made Of her illness, tina, a
Ter door was To be shut aud no one al. Y
owed to enter, not even Mrs. PolndeNter IA
n her guardian-least OF ALL her guard
an began To catch the first intimation
II that horror which was 10 end my youth fl
nd fill my whole after life with but one o
bought But ! said nothing, "
MY watched and waited. Seeing that she d
vas really i'll. | constituted myself her
urse. and lat by her night and day till N
er symptoms became 20 alarming that the "
;hole household was aroused and we could n
o longer keep the doctor from her. Then al
sat at her door, and with one ear turned 50
0 catch her lightest mean, listened for 81
he step she most dreaded, but which, n
hough it sometimes approached, never T.
assed the opening of the hall leading to dr
err chamber. For one whole week ! sat il
here, watching her life go slowly out like "
flame, with nothing To feed it; then ~ ~
he great shadow fell, and life seemed n,
reaking up within me. ! dashed from the hi
lace, and confronting him where | found
i'm walking, pale and disturbed. in his of
Hn hall, told him that my father was ia
,ming; that | had had a dream, and in IN
nat dream | had seen my father with his lie,
zee turned toward this place. Was he ia
repaired to meet him? Had he an answer co
lady when Amos Cadwalader should ask M
in what had become of his child? tn
II had meant to shock the truth from he
lis man, and | did so. As | mentioned Gle
Y fathers name, Poindexter blanched, II
I'd my fears became certainty. Dropping ha
Y youthful manner. for | was a boy no
niger, ! flung his crime in his face, and bu
'gged him to deny it ii he could. He ~
uld not. but he did what neither he nor oil
~ other man could do in my presence fol
w and live-he smiled. Then when he We
W me crouching for a sprlng-ior, young no
| was, | knew but one impulse. and wi
at was to fly at his throat-he put out wi
powerful hand, and pinnlng me 10 the hei
ound uttered a few short sentences in de.
ear. tn,
They were terrible ones They made aft
: see that nothing | might then do could loo
literate the fact that She was lost il the the
,rld knew what knew, or even so much ing
suspected it, that any betrayal on my ant
TT or act of contTition on his would only .
G ne earth on hef innocent breast ana Gus
liz her deeper ana deeper INTO the grave abb
G was then digging for herself; that all die
cams we're falsities; that Southern pris- cu,
) seldom gave up their victims alive 10
4 that if my father should escape the III,
VS. of Libby and return, it was for me to of
glad if he found a quiet grave instead of frol
lishonored daughter. Further, that if dor
ssed him, who was power itself, by any sigI
Wish exhibition of hate, ! would find ItLe
It any odium | might invoke would fall grh
her and not on HIM making me an alb Col,
renee, not only to the world at large. Tb,
to the very father in whose interest | voll
rht pretend to act. I Il
| was young and without worldly expe- tba
nee. | yielded to these arguments, but tha
ursed him where he stood With his ogo
I'd pressing heavily upon me, ] cursed Won
I to his face; then | went back to my In ,
err. 4,
Had she, by some supernatural power, NOV ~
ened to our talk. or had she really been old
ted by some dream, that she looked so Clint
nged? There was feverish light in atel
eye and something like the shadow of .,
mile on her lips. Mrs Poindexter was
h her: Mrs. Poindexter, whose face was - kho
mask we never tried to penetrate But ~
,lvn smoke and 7 saw what her dr ANN Their
been her
Felix, she cried as | approached her !er
milling with my own emotions and half you you
nd of hers, there is still one hope for ana
1t has come to me while you have oieh
n away. Edward-he loves me-did- you
maps he would forgive. If he would Tor
, me into his protection q see you nave
W it all, Felix then | might grow II,
ny -well-strong- good. Do YOU but
k-oh Won are a child what do Won deaf