New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-30


Tber. had been a gala time at the club that night
Old fricui- who were celebrating an amazing victory
on the w were there; and there had been vine, cards
and gambling They had coaxed and cajoed him into
baccara- They were influential he wished TO retain
their good will they might be useful to him in his after
ca-ee- These were the thoughts he detailed, the eX-
cses he -lade-betwecn wine and the desire 10 stand
well with friends he had lost his head had yielded to
temptation. gone into the game, and had come out OF
il without shilling in his pocket, without hope IN his
aForgo- me that note had ended a am the great
est scoundrel that went unhanged, 20 do thing
ike thai with your money and 50 loathe myself tor
can never look into your face again. My punishment
is that love YOU with all my heart and yet am TO lose
YOU because Of what have done
What became of him after that Miss Amelia never
knew H. seemed 10 have vanished from of the face
Of the earth He must have thought that She would
explain o. h father; Tor he never wrote % Nh Car
bows a single line But Miss Amelia kept her peace
She never BETRAYED him his father He died without
knowing o the mortgage the PrOry, or OF the shame
ful thing his son had done Indeed, i only when
the rlnoe interest had 70 be met, and every penny
boarded t9 that end that Miss Amelia conded IN her
cousin AMI sobbed out her trouble on Miss Ph@bc
And after that the strugge, the heavy cross and the
bitter bitter burden.
For ves-. and years the two went pinching and
saving DENYING themselves everything but the bare
necessite ~ order that that interest might be PAD
And as -rac passed it became harder and harder TO
meet IN, steady demands for the school no longer
50 profit le as II once had been Old pupils grew up
and lef r. new educational systems came into vogue
the ade " the Priory out Of date, out 81 touch
with the movement Of the times; and the little schoo
dwindlei mi dWinded till YOU could count us pupils on
the fnge- s one hand And after time these TOO
went an - brass plate was taken of The gates, and
The Two .--.e old women walked their empty hallS
alone.
And .~-ths hcartbrealang today, when Miss
Amelia 81 the shade Of the old pcrgola and reached
O'1'n he nf
today tn owning misfortune of all had come. fort
night az holder Of the mortgage had died nte''ate'
and the had 20 be settled by order OF the court
and a. -.ast two o'clock this bitter day Of DAYS
the Pro- s- 10 be sold under foreclosure at Token
house and other feet were 10 cross It's SILL other
voices o. nd in It's quiet rooms, and other hands 10
touch AL own Miss Amelia sacred roses.
lndeel -..r must belong 10 someone else even now,
she told -t with Il sudden pang that cut ITS way 70
the YER ~ Of her; for il was after eight clock ana
the June twilight already dimming.
She r0- her feet in sort OF panic, ana went across
% the h, open space where the sundlM Stood ana
going dow on her knees before the OF roses that
marked o. .-icrod spot took the blooms one by one
between a.' scooped hands and kissed them ....,.,r
she sobb. Then she huddled the big, fragrant bios
sons up aga.nst her withcrcd check, b. n her head
YEARLY, aai was still for d very long rne
Acros III, river a nightingale ficked into treetop
and flung orr his cvcnSOng IN thin sweet rouiadc yu9e
as that Other nightingale had done at that other t"lght
time o, long ago. and between them al-the note o.
the bird the right in the sky the shine on the river ana
the scent o the rOscs-thc years seemed soneho" 10
roll back. and Memory gave her ltes morning once
again.
At is only that have grown old. the world IS Just
as young now as then She sighed, as she rose ana
looked round her through warm, wet ml5i' N"'uc
never greres never loses the trick Of smiling nor le
git Of song Sorrow and tears were not made by 'ou'
u was man that created those.
THE sound Of a gentle voice calling her in tones o.
nervousness and anxiety came 10 her al TINS IoliiI
and put end 70 her reflections She turned hcr Dach
upon the india hurried round the angle, ana there III
the middle Of the garden path, she saw her COUSIN
hmping toward her and following in her wake old Ban
MISTER the solicitor
~Oh t-oDl,af III, nv, doari" blcatcd Miss Phubc,