The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-24

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face. He dealt lightning bl hIeA
sent Adam staggering back. b the
delicatehanded gentleman "a no
match for the workman , treat
strength. After q fierce str, "a !, Ar
thur fell motionless. while ~ .. in
sudden revulsion Of feeling. bua yver
him like an image of despa adng
on DEATH
To his intense relief. Arthur grad,
ually revived. Adam got HIN his
feet. supported him to the little cabin.
ard laid him ON q couch. Then he |
spoke out 1
II don't forget what's owing 10 you
AZ gentleman. but In this thing we
are man to man. Either tell me she
can never be my wife-tell me you're
lying when you say you haven't
harmed her-or else write her let
ter. telling her the truth that you
won't see her again."
Arthur struggled, suffered, prom.
ised, and Adam half comforted. LEFT.
not knowing that there. In the waste
basket, hastily stuffed under the %
pers. lay Q woman's silk kerchief.
When Hetty read Arthur's letter.
she gave way to despair. Then. By
one of those convulsive motiveless 40
lions by which the wretched leap from
temporary sorrow to lifelong misery.
she determined to marry Adam. The
big carpenter was In the seventh
heaven, Hetty ntful and depressed
For family reasons, the marriage
could not be hastened and as the
months passed, she determined at any
cost to seek out Arthur, whose regi-
ment was at Windsor. Telling her
uncle she was going to Snowfield 10
see Dinah for little change OF scene
before her marriage, she started out.
Ignorant of the country, panicstricken
and forlorn, eager to shun every IA
miliar face, longing only to feel again
the protection of her lovers arms.
On Arthur, meanwhile, life seemed
! again to smile. After rejoining his
regiment, his sharpest regrets fol
Hetty began to lose their sting. Soor
: he was transferred to Ireland, ant
!. there learned that by his GRANDPA
I theirs death he was lord Of the manor
Home he came, fast as chaise ant
: post boy could drive, home to dea
old Hayslope sleeping on the hill
: where he was to live his life, maj
ried to some lovely lady, respected an
appreciated by his tenants. A pile Q
letters awaited him. He opened tn
! first, and with a violent convulsio
: shaking his whole frame, read tn
: words: Hetty Sorrel Is in prison II
the crime Of child murder.
Clutching the letter, Arthur rushe
!. from the room like hunted man, an
: springing to the saddle Of a waitir
:, horse, set of at gallop.
: That very evening a young woms
: knocked at the door Of the village ia
!. There was about her deep conce
= trated calmness which induced t
" taller to grant her request to VII
the condemned cell. AS the hea
:. door closed behind her, she hesitat
- before the pallet bed.
- "Hetty, Dinah is come to you"
~ Slowly, very slowly, Hetty rose q
nj was clasped in Dinah's arms.
As "You won't leave me, DinahY
or "No, Hetty," whispered Dinah.
le, stay with you to the last. But He1
90 there is someone else In this cell.
"Who?" whispered Hetty. fris
in ened.
Ter Someone who has been with
ter all your hours of sin and trouble.
lty makes no difference, Hetty, whet
res we live or die. We are In the prese
rly Of God. Confess the sin you have c
ole mitted against your Heavenly Fat
ad. Let us kneel together. He Is here
no There in the silence and darkn
ens Hetty, who through her trial had
vas like stone image, poured forth
urn pitiful story.
lrm sit was because was so misera
he Dinah. I didn't know where to &C
rne tried to kill myself, and I couldn',
Itch went to Windsor to find him. He
d. gone. and I didn't know what to
ked 7 daredn't 90 home again. Then
and baby was born. ! olo "
AS Dinah. I buried it In the wood
tied little baby. It cried. -. n
at a It all highland I went back.
urn then thought would 60 home,
rch- all Of a sudden I saw a hole und
nut tree, and 1t darted over me
that lightning I'd lay the baby there
ards cover it with grass and chip
with couldn't cover it quite up, Dinal
The thought somebody'd come and
Dom care Of 1t. Dinah, do you think
He will take away that cry and the
ured in the wood, now that I've told g
dam thingf
' to "Let us pray, poor sinner" bres
inter Dinah. "Let us pray to the Gt
All Mercy"
Less Comforter and comforted,
fine prayer was heard. Two days
retty In the very shadow OF the sea
my Arthur Donnithorne brought
. her won reprieve.
] for Though spared from oeatn'
was sentenced to transportation
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