Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-09-09
A Story Of
leredity
By EUNICE BLAKE

was about her an air of one to the
manner born. So impressed was
the lady with the belief that Silvia
had good blood in her veins that she
asked the girl to tell her something
about her origin. Silvia refused.
Where did you spend your child
hood?" asked Mrs. Waterbury.
II cannot tell YOU was the reply,
while Silvia hung her head.
Don't you remember your parents?'
IT do not"
How long have you been in serv-
ace?'
Two years"
Mrs. Waterbury gave up trying to
and her maids antecedents. but she
was not convinced that she had been
born a servant. Silvia's case interest
ed her the more because she reminded
her Of woman she had met when, she
was entering society. This Mrs. Mar
shall had been at the time woman4of
forty and had become social leader
from the fact OF a certain courtliness
there was about her. sy
u
minded her Of the high bred woman
Mrs. Waterbury could not tell. Mrs.
Marshall had been socially prominent
a quarter of century before Mrs.
Waterbury, who was twenty years her
juniOr, had not been intimate with her
and had seen her only at certain func-
TONS . rl a-e. 5a + .sa.T aa h.
m n no ~ INN rio inf NOR
son to her employer other than as a
servant. Arthur Waterbury, the lat
ter's son. came home from college and
mad not been in the house Il day before
ais mother noticed that he had become
pngrOssed with her maid Arthur
struggled against the passion till with
holding expression of it became un-
bearable, then confessed it to Silvia.
His mother overheard him doing so.
You were not born a servant" said
Arthur. ''No such high bred manner
could come from a plebeian; it is hered-
itary"
Il am a servant and nothing else"
Silvia replied. IN .3
Whatever you are cannot help low
ling you. | do love you, and you shall
be my wife,
IL will not be your wife. because to
marry me would deprive you of the
social position which is your right.
You would always be ashamed Of me.
and I would drag you down."
Mrs. Waterbury heard no more. She
said nothing to her son about what
she had overheard. but the next day
did all she could to save her son from
misalliance. She sent the girl away
and did not tell Arthur where she had
gone.
Several months passed. Mrs. Water
bury saw that her son was not the
same man he had been before he came
heme from college. Ambition had left
MIN; he took no interest in anything.
He had experienced a grand passion.
and the breaking with his mate had
blighted his life
Then came q coincidence chain OF
condolences. Ii there were no coinci-
'1ences there would be no stories
DR. ShOtWell. Mrs. Waterways fam
NY physician. one day. drove up to her
house, rang and was admitted
why. doctor said the lady. what
'hrings you? We are all we'll here
Surely you, must have called socially
'and are welcome socially ~
fSi have called to tell you of singu-
Anr happening DIX 4
r.Let me hear it, y !
ETfou remember the pretty maid you
had here for a time have often seen
sher here and noticed how little like a /
servant she appeared-that 1adyli
air rasaEe a9s-s is5.gssFz
Yes, we all noticed that interrupt
ed the lady somewhat impatiently
Well, on leaving you she at once
found position ina family | also at |
tend professionally She is i'll. and !
was called in to treat her. In applying
a hot poultice between her. shoulder
blades noticed birthmark shaped |
something like, Maltese cross. / mad |
reason to remember that birtbmark.
for | hid attended the mother Of the
>t:iis! who bore it .htecn Years be
fore under peculiar circumstances. The
woman was the daughter of social
leader. and | had not heard that she
had been married. though was after
ward furnished with proof that she
was, at any rate. the ACCOMPLISHMENT
was secret"
THE name Of this family. doctor2"
Mrs. Waterbury broke in
Marshall
MARSHALL! Do you mean to tell
Fne that Silvia is the granddaughter OF
Mrs. James Osgood Marshall who
Aourished socially twenty five years
ago.
II do. Julia Marshall. the daughter.
married clandestinely There was trou-
bic in the family, and her mother with
drew from society. Julia's marriage
was never published. The child was
consigned to foundlings home and
was lost to her parents. both Of whom