The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-12-09
Loves Miracle
BY ALDEN CHAPMAN

come to purchase itT
IL got il on foreclosure" answered
William Breen II don't operate 1t
myself. 1t is leased to the man who
runs 1t. You see, Horace Mayworth,
the former owner, lost all he had In
foolish speculation. The present les
See hires him to manage the farm, for
MaywOrth knows how TO do that. His
wife is dead, his sons married and
moved away and his daughter works
for and lives with a mIllner In the
village.
"As | too we'll know" muttered No
Bile between his set teeth, and his eyes
cleaned vengefully. "Ahl nothing
&, I'D suit me better than TO pay back
horace Mayworth Tor the wretched-
Il, IS he infused into my life when
WAS his employee. Ii was more like
bong slave
IL was ten years since Noble had
/, n AT Clyde and he had returned so
ci .lnged that no one had so far recOg-
niled him He now paid $500 down as
forfeit money. He had left clyde hat
ins the whole world An almShOuse
prlper, Mayworth had taken him into
his service only to work him nearly
10 death. To abuse him, to prosecute
hil. He had broken all the spirit
H. re- was In the poor lad, and nj last,
M ing him bitterly, the place all
about, the Indifferent and despising
community, Noble had gone forth an
OUicnSt morally and mentally with dis
toIted views of the world.
lie had led the life after that OF Il
mirer in the very worst district OF the
West. He had gambled had himself
become figure among those he could
in.!midate. Handkerchief, with no in
nate human sympathy. he had ac-
CURED fair, fortune and had wan
derrd back to the scenes Of his youth,
hc Knew scarcely why.
y fierce joy possessed him when he
leG"ned OF the misfortune that had
oVcftaken Horace Mayworth. All
what satisfying recOmpcnse in finding
his enemy fallen. There flashed
through the thoughts of Noble an I'M
pul'e TO secure mastery over the old
farm and its former owner, To Cypress,
TO humiliate, to revengefully cause
him 20 atone for all the wrongs he had
wrought upon him in the past. Even a
memory Of the kindly friendship of
the daughter, Irene, in his early boy
hood days, did not assuage or divert
the resolve TO pay back that old score
of oppression and abuse that had poi
soned the whole life of Noble.
SO the returned wandcrer allowed
no one 10 meet him and none recog-
niZed him. He gloated over fancied
revenge anticipating the rare pleasure
he would experience In furnishing the
man he so fervently hated. Point Ivy
point, detail by detail he planned and
plotted and cherished the climax mo-
ment when he should see Horace May
worth driven forth pauper and
frlendless.
One rainy evening he attlred himself
In an enveloping coat and wore a hat
pulled well down over his eyes. There
had come TO him great curiosity to
once more see Irene Mayworth. After
ten years the inspection through the
store window was n revelation TO him.
She had grown superatlyely beautiful
and as he watched her, she all unsus
pecting, he recalled how In that dull
dark past she had been the one person
who had taken the interest of plying
| friendship In him. Two men had
paused under the store awning to es
cape the rain. He heard one Of them
speak 1rene's name and moved nearer
"The grandest girl in Clyde" spoke
the man. "They say she has paid VI
every dollar Of some old Indebtedness
of her father, buys him his clothes
and otherwise cares for him with ten
derness and fidelity"
"My wife told me last week that
Miss Mayworth was providing for q
poor family here, and she helps the
the girls at the factory by working
nights to trim their hats for nothing
Half dozen evenings Bert Noble
visited the vicinity Of the millinery
store. Somehow II became species
Of fascination to him. Somehow, too
the angelic influence of this courage
Gus. bright souled victim Of misfortune
softened his mood. She, too, had suf.
fered, but amid her desolatlon love
and sympathy had sustained anu glo
rified her.
Bert Noble changed all his mean
rancOrous, plans of revenge In a single
hour He completed the purchase OF
the farm and appeared publicly. he
manifested himself to Irene and she
welcomed his return with genuine glad
ness. One day Noble went to see May
worth. 1t was to hand him a deed tC
his former landed possessions. The ole
man broke down with contrition, will
gratitude that seemed to bring o
blessing and peace and new life i'm
| pulses to Noble.
Instead of perpetrating a base re
venge Bert Noble awarded peace and
contentment to the last days Of Hor
ace Mayworth. The latter went arount
new man, confessing his past errors
speaking as tenderly Of Noble a.
| though he were hts own son.