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The Huron Signal, 1881-06-17, Page 21 THE HURON SIGNAL, FRID1.Y'; JUNE 17, 1881. A LIFE FOR A LIFE. DY etas rats ace CHAPTER XXXVI. KL sTOJRT. I did not see your father afterward. He quitted the court directly after sen- tence was given—three months' impris- oDaseltt—the judge making • lottg speech previously; but I heard not • syllable. 1 heard nothing but your father's words -- saw no one except himself, sitting there below me, with his hands crossed on his stick, and a stream of sunshine falling across his white hairs —Theodora—Theu- dor,— I cannot write; it is impossible. Granton gut admission to me for a minute after I was taken back to prison. He told me that the "hard labor" was remitted; that there had been applica- tion made for commutation of three months into one, but the judge declined. If I wished, a sew application should be made to the Home Secretary. No, my love, suffer him not to do it. Let nothing more be done. I had rather abide my full tern of punishment. It is only too easy Do not grieve for me. Trust me, my child, many a peer puts on his robes with a heavier heart than I put on this felon's dress, which shocked Granton so much that he is sure to tell you of it. Never mind it—ray clothes are not me, are they, little lady ? Who was the man that wrote "Stone walls do not • prison make, Nor iron bares cage; Minds innocent—" Am I innocent ? No; but I am for- given, as I believe, before God and man. And are not all the glories of heaven preparing, not for sinners, but for par- doned souls 1 Therefore I ant at peace. The first night of my imprisonment is, for some things, as happy to me as that which I have often imagined to myself when I should bring you home for the first tune to my own fireside. No, even that thought, and the rush of thonghte that came with it,arenotableto shake me out of this feeling of unutter- able rent—so perfect that it seems strange to imagine I ahall,gver go out of this cell to begin afresh the turmoil of the world -- as strange as that the dead should wish to return again to life and its cares. But this is as God wills. My love good -night. Granton will give you any farther particulars. Talk to him freely—it will be his good heart's And them, 1 believe, nu lover or the record of it, in hearti•eli in word, can ever be lost. �o it is of1e s matter to Mems apd am whaler this, our true love's history, einks4own into the bottom of the ocean, to sleep thenwe al- most expected we should d�esterday, there was arch a atoms --or is sealed up and preserved /or the benefit of—o our great-grandektdren. Ah ! that poor another and her cad child ! Ma: hers crept down into the berth to look for me, and I returned with him and left him resting comfortably on the quarter-deck, promising not to stir for a whole hour I have to take care of him still; but, as I told him, the sea winds are bringing some of its natural brown- ness back to his dear old face, and I shall not consider him "interesting" any eOMemptible shame ! Those few tears that burned my cheeks after the letter wag gone were the only teas of the sort )Mt I ever shad—that Max will ever sitter me to shed. Mat loves m. ! life letter in reply I 'shall Dot give— net • has of it. I1 was only fur me. flu that being nettled, the next thing to oonaider was bow rsiatters could be brought about without delay either; foe, with Max's letter, 1 got one from his good friend Mrs. Ansdell, at whose house in London he had gone to lodge. Her sun had followed his two sisters -- they were &consumptive family—leaving her a poor old childless widow now. She was very fond of toy dear Max, which made her quick -sighted concern- ing him, and so she wrote as she did, delicately, but sufficiently plainly to me who she said he had told her was, in cane of any sadden calagtity, to be sent for as "his nearest friend." My dear Max ! Now we smile at these sad forebodings; we believe we shall both live to see a good old age. But if I had known that we ahould only be married -a year, amonth, a week—if I had been certain he would die in toy anus the very same day, I should still have done exactly what I did. In one sense his illness made my path easier. He had need of me—vital, in- stant need, and no one else had. Also, he was so weak that even his will had left him; he could neither reason nor re- sist. He just wrote, "You are my con- science; do as you will, only do right." And then, as Mrs. Ansdell afterward told me, he lay for days, calm, patient —waiting, he says, fur another angel than Theodora. Well, we smile now at these days, as I said; thank God, we can smile; but it would not do to live then over again. Max refused to let me come to see him at .lin. Andell's until my father had been informed of all our plans. But papa went on in his daily life, now so active and cheerful; he did not seem to remember anything concerning Dr. Ur- quhart r quhart and me. For two whole days did I follow him about, watching an opportunity but it never mime. The more. During the three months that Max was in prison I never saw hint. Indeed, we never once met from the day we said good -by in my father's presence till the day that --- But I will continue my story systematically. All those three months Max was ill; not dangerously—for he said so, and I could believe him. It would have gone very hard with me if I could not have, relied on him in this, as in everything. Nevertheless, it was a bitter time, and now I almost wonder how I bore it—now when I am ready and willing for every- thing, except the one thing, which, thank God, I shall never have to bear again— separation. The day before he came out of prison Max wrote to me a long and serious letter. Hitherto both our letters had been filled with trivailties, such as might amuse him and cheer me. We deferred all plans till he was better. My private thoughts , if I had any, were not clear even to myself until Max's letter. It was a very sad letter. Three months' confinement in one cell, with one hour's daily walk round a circle in a walled yard—prisoner's labor, for he took to making mate, saying it amused hien—pr'isoner's rules and fare—no won- der that toward the end even his brave heart gave way. man on this earth for whom it is worth forsaking • happy home and a good father." And truly, if 1 had ever had the least doubt of Max, or of our love for ons another; if I had not felt as it were al- ready married to him, who had no tie in the whole wide world but we, I never could have nerved myself to say' what I did say to my father. If, in the lightest word, of was unjust, unloving, or un- dutiful, may God forgive me, for 1 never Meant it ! My heart was breaking al- most; but I only wanted to hold fast to the right, as I saw it, and as, so seeing it; I oould not but act. "So I understand you wish to leave your father ?" He broke down utterly, otherwise he never would have„ written to me as he did—bidding me farewell—me ! At first I was startled and shocked; then I laid down the letter and smiled—a very sad f smile,f course, but still it to be married in three weeks, remain a week in England, and them sail. "And what if 1 do nut give my ooa . Mot I- I stopped a ntameut, and then strength same. t "1 must; be Max's wife still. God gave us to roe another, and God only shall only put us asnncter." till I After that., 1 remember nothing with found myself ly►ng'im we own bed, Penelope beside me. No words can tell how good my sister Penelope was to rue in the three weeks that followed. She helped me in all my marriage preparations, few and spell, for I bed little or no money except what I might have asked papa for, and I would not have done that—not for worlds : Max's wife would have conte to him alrnost as por as Gri.eldis, had not Penelope one day taken one to those locked -up drawers of hers. "Are you afraid of ill luck with these things 1 No 1 Then choose whatever you want, and may you have health and "Papa ! paw'.., "Do not argue the point. I thought that fully was all over now. It must be over. Ba a good girl, and forget it. There !" I suppose 1 must have turned very hate for I felt him take hold of me, d press me into a chair beside Now N carve se l'Nsella. Perhaps you due% know 1 11 so, 1 11 Mil you. If you are iu the country, where there Is plenty of rotas, the knowledge will be of au beee?t to re, and you had better nut (waste your time reading this article. But if you are in the city ybu will Ind it practically to your advantage to study the rules, laid down. To begin at Ohs begu►niag : Be sure and pull your hat well down over your eyes before you start out with your umbrella. Button up your coat. If it is cold weather tie on a murder. If you chew tobacco take a fresh qutd. Slam the door when you go out of your house. It will give people inside a clear understanding of the fact that you are proprietor and have a right to slam your own door as much as you please. After you stop out on the crowded sidewalk, thrust your umbrella under your and, and try and have the two white, o points stick out equally, before and be - But hint at right angle-. with your lege. It But it would nut do to let my strength happiness Li, wear them, my dear.' hind, always well when you are purchasing, And so. with •little more stitching— to buy as lung an umbrella as yuu an g1 "Papa, I want your consent to my fur I had a sort 1 f superstition that I It will be likely to fast lunger, s■ marriage with Dr. Urquhart. He would should like to be married in one new we l as to stick out further when y'�u are come and ask you himself, but he is too white gown, which nay sister and I mule I osrrying it. ill. We have waited a lung time, and between us—we finished and packed the Theft walk as fast as y'e u can The suffered much. He is not young, and I small wardrobe which was all the mar- faster the better. People in cities al feel old—quite old myself, sometimes. Do not part us any more. This was as near as I can recollect, what I said—said very q ietly and hum- bly, 1 know it was, for my father seem- ed neither surprised nor angry; but he sat there as hand as a stone, repeatinv only, "It must be over. - ''Why 1' • ver."..Why1'• He answered by one word: "Harry." "No other reason ?" "None." Then I dared to speak out plain, even to toy father. "Papa, you .aid public- ly you had forgiven him for the death of Harry.- "But arry.""But I never said I should forget." "Ay, there it is :" I cried out bitter People say they forgive, but they can- not forget. It would go hard with some of us if the just God dealt with us in first person who learned my secret was like manner." Penelope. "You are profane. How many a time, in these strange "No; only I am not afraid to bring summers to. come; shall I call to mind God's truth into all the circumstances of that soft English summer night, under life, and to judge them by it.' I believe, the honeysuckle bush—Penelope and I if Christ came into the world to forgive curt u o coo sitting at our work; she talked the while sinners, we ought to forgive them too." was a smile. The idea that Max and I I of Limbel's new hope, and considering Thus far I said, rot thinking it just could part, er desire to do so, under any I which of us two should beet be spared to toward Max that I should plead merely beat reward. His happy, busy life, human circumstances, seemed one of ' go and take care of her in her trial. for pity to be shown to him or to me which is now begun, may have been those amusingly impusaible things that "Or, indeed, papa might almost be who loved him, but because it was right made all the brighter for the momentary I one would never stop to - argue in the left alone for a week or two. He would and the truth, and as such, both for cloud which taught him that Providence least, either with one's self or any other I hardly miss us, he is se well. I should Max's honor and mine, I strove to put it oftentimes blesses us in better ways than person. That we loved one another, and - not wonder if, like grandfather, whom clearly before my father. And then I by giving us exactly. the thing we de- therefore some day should probably be you don't remember, Dora, he lived to gave way, pleading only as a daughter at your friend's huuse,(you will be direct titin over the lucre you have left be sired. He told me when we parted, married, but that anyhow we belonged be ninety yeah old. with her father, that he should blot out ed to the proper place for the removal fightingy1 which was the only allusion he made to to one another till death, were facts at "I hope he may—I hope he may :" the past, and not, for the sake of one of your wraps and the arrangement of hind you. the past, that, though Mrs. Colin was once simple and natural, and immutable And I burst out sobbing; then, hang- long dead and gone, break the heart of your toilet, and then you have only to Calling ea the Sick. "the dearest little woman in all the as that. the sun stood in the heavens or ; ing about my sister's neck, I told her his living child. proceed to the parlor where your nlyte o "Harry would not wish it—I am sure 1. t►nl call at the door, unless you world," he should always adore, as t}et the grass was green. all. Rill relieve you from enibanument by Y "Oh— I cried, for my tongue seemed he would not. If Harry has gone where meeting you at once. She is, of course, are sure your friends is able to we .• ti Miss Dong between a saint and angel," I wrote bark to Max that night.without harm. Miss Dora. unleased, and I was not afraid of speak- he, too, may find mercy for his many the first Per"' whom you are to greet. 2. Enter and leave the house, and Not that 1 did it in any hurry, e r im- L she my saint and angel ! Perhaps for - pulse of sudden feeling. I took many ing to her, nor even of hurting her—if sing, I know that he has long ago for- nonal igen m dear Max.' . riage portion poor Theodora Johnston could bring to her husband. [memorize mar ware.] pew to Weave u • r'art7- 1 remember that when I was quite young going to a party was as much of a trial to me as a pleasure. Being diffident, I dreaded entering the room, and enconn- tering the eyes of the people already ways go fast f, r fear time will overtake them. Everybody who has the impuder.•e t„ I push up behind you will get punished 'for it by a poke from the umbrella you carry behind; and everybody you meet wilt get a poke fn,m the umbrella you carry in front; for arranged in this way an umbrella acts on the principle of a double -ender, and like old Grandpa Ly - assembled there; and once fairly in, I man's gun, kills equally well at both was overshadowed'hll the evening by the ends. If a small boy or two should be knock Besides, necessity of by and by retiring. 11 Besides, I felt a sense of resp,nsibilty which was very oppressive, and was so afraid of not doing or saying what was expected of me that I moved and acted ed over, no [natter : It willlearn ane boys to stay at Lowe an 1 pick up chips for their mothers. No business out in the street, getting in the way of people's aumbrellas ! ly miserablly,e. and no doubt looked perfect If it rains, spread your umbrella and ly miseaable. I hold it well down in front of you. .Peo- ple who are coming the ether way must keep their own lookout. Of course yuu will be going with your face to the storm. ?lite always ie. If :you put any- body's eyes out, it won't be your fault - they should have got out of the way periences similar to mine. Now let me tell you that I have to laugh at my fool- ish shyness, and to be very sorry for boys and girls who suffer from the same thing. When you are invited to a com- pany, the first thin, in order is to reply I when they saw yuu coming ! to the invitation. This is polite, wheth If your umbrella becomes entangled in a lady's laces, or fringes, don't stop to disentangle it. Tear along. Serves her right for wearing su=h fooleries ' Make your way, no matter who sinks thanks Mrs.—for her kind invitation or swims, and moat likely you will die er you accept or decline, and it is impe- rative if you decline. Send your answer as soon as possible, in some such simple phrase as this: "Harold," or "Florence, for Thursday.. evening, and accepts it with pleasure," or "declines it with real regret," as the case may be. Arrived rich, and all your relatives will be boil- ing over with joy at your death, and will find employment for a year:to come in Having spoken to her, you are at liberty move about the room quietly. --if she were.not likewise the woman of p w she could be hurt by the pe g Y b to consider both what I should eau n, to find other friends Du not think 3. Carry a cheerful face, and speak h recalled to her mind. My father, muttering something about andin what• nun sorrows that m minecheerful words. y lace• form I should put it Also, ��people are kokin at you, or noticing 4. In order to cheer you need not tell What is she doing now, I Wunder 1 I had doubts whether it would not be Oh, Penelope, don't you think it would "strange theology, sat thoughtful. It dress or your looks. They are do- lies be right 1 Papa does not want me— was some time before he .puke agaia ing nothing of the kind. Engageheartily 1 5. If your friend is very sick, do not "There is one point of the subject you omit entirely. What will the world in whatever amusement is provided for ' fall into gay and careless conversation h but d not put yourself in in the attempt to be cheerful r Probably vanishing, lamp in hand, as I Vest for him, if he accepted the generou hare often watched her, up the stair into nobody wants me. Or if they di offer of Mr. Thurley's ton -in-law, made I stopped. Penelope said, meditative - her own wee room, where she sh d ser and remembers sae. Yea, remember me, but not wi }relieve me, that I am happy —th ever now befalls me I shall al happy. Tell yiiur father -- No, tell him nothing. He surely knows all. Or he will know it, when, this life having passed away like a vapor he and I stand together before the (Inc God, who is also the Redeemer of sinners. Write to me, but do not come and see me. Hitherto your name has been kept uts the th pain. at what - ways he with full knowledge of all circumstances 1 Amato shall leave his father and to go fiat to America alone. But, think hie mother and cleave unto his wife." how I would, my thoughts all returned* "And 'equally a woman ought to cleave and settled in the same track, in which unto her husband. I mean to ask my was written one clear truth; that, after God and the right—which means all claims of justice and conscience—the first duty of any two who love truly is toward one another. I have thought since that if this truth were plainer seen and more firmly held by those whom it concerns, many false notions about honor, pride, self-respect, would slip off; many uneaay doubts and clear out of everything; it must be still, divided duties would be set at rest; there would be leas fear of the world at any sacrifice to both sof ire. T count and more of God, the only righteous n this from you. You know, you once fear. People would believe more simply said, laughing. you hal already taken in in His ordinance, instituted "from the your heart the a to exact vow 1of "abed,- inning"—not the mere outward cere- ence," if 1 chose to exact it. i never did, but I do now. 1•nleaa 1 send for you—Which I solemnly promise to do if illness or any other cause makes it neceiaary--obey me, your husband; do not come and see me. Three months will pass quickly. Then ? But let us not look forward. My love, geeal-night MAX b-RQt-HA•T. CHAPTERXXXVIi. ■11 trr'n*T. Max says 1 am to write an end to my j uraal, tie it up with bis_ letters and none. fasten • ,[.ane to it, and atop it over the ship s bulwarks into this blue, hlue ace. That is either he threatened me or i him, 1 forget which. with such • solemn termination; hut 1 doubt if we shall ever have courage to do it. It would feel something like dropping • little child into this "wild and wander- ing grave," as a poor mother on board had to do yesterday. "Rot i shall see him again," enbbed, •s i was helping her to sew little white holy up in its hammock. "The good Clod will take care of him, and let se find it again, even out of the deep sea. T cannot lee. him 1 lowed Um so. eh* the the occasion, u r, say + I, a clergyman, to sanction the 6. Dom'[ ask questions, and thus o r needlessly forward. If spoken to, reply lige your friend to talk. marriage of my daughter with the meat modestly but intelligently, even though I 7. Talk about something outside, and who took the life of toy ton 1 It is not possible. ' for a moment there should be • hush in the room. If you really wish to enjoy father's consent to my going with Max Then Igrew told : "So it is not the law yourself, seek out somebody who seems to Canada." of Gaol, or justice, er nature, that keeps more a stranger than yourself, and to "Ah ! that's sudden, child." And by us asunder, the world 1 Father, you do so,mr'hing for his or her plessure.— her start of pain I felt how untruly I had havf no right to part Max and me for Forget you are not acquainted with spoken how keenly I must have wound- fear of the world.' everybody, and remember that it is your ed my sister in saying, "Nobody *anted When it was said, I repented myself duty to help your hostess itl making her me" at home. of this. But it was too late. All his party a success. Should your greatest Home. where I lived for nearly teen- former hardness returned as he said : ty-semen year'[, all of which , now seem "I am aware that I have no legal right enemy be present, yob must, of course, such happy years. "God do so unto to forbid your marriage. You are of be perfectly agreeable in your manner towards hire, fur in your friend's house nue, and more also," as the old Hebrews age: you may act, as you have all along J ;i are under a gag of truce. used to say, if ever I forget R1.ekmount, acted, in defiance of your father." When you say goodnight to your en - my peaceful maiden home ' It looked so pretty that night, with the sunset coloring its old walls, and its terrace walk, where papa was walking to many of a wedding, but the love which 1 and fro,bareheaded, the re,sy light fall. draws together man and woman until it ' ing like a glory upon his long white makes them complete in one another, an hair. To think of him thus pacing his the mystical marriage union, which, once gan}en, year after year, each year gr•e1w- perfect, should never be annulled. And if this union begins. as I think it dues, from the very hour each feels cer. tain of the other'e love --surely as I sad to Max—to talk about giving 1,ne another up, whether from poverty, de- lay, altered circumstances, or compulsion of friends, anything, in short-, except changed love or lost honor --like poor Penelope. and Francis— was about its foolish and wrong as attempting to annul a marriage. Indeed, i have seen many a marriage that might have been broken with far less unholiness than • real troth plight. such as was this of ours. After a little more "preaching a had habit that i fear is growing upon me, save that Max merely laughs at it, or when he dues net laugh he actually listens 1), 1 ended my letter by the earn- est advice that he should go and settle ing ,,pier and feebler, and I never seeing him, perhaps never hearing from him— either not coming back at all. er return- ing after • lspee of years to find nothing left to me but my father's grave ! The conflict was very terrible; nor would Max himself have wished it less. They du not love their own flesh and blood, with whom they have lived ever glace they were born, how can they know what any move is We heard taps call us •'('orae in,ynu girls' The sun is down, and the dews are falling... Penelope put her hand softly on my head. "Hush, child, hush' Steal into your own room, and quiet yourself. I will go and explain things to your father." 1 was sure she must have done it in in Canada, and go at once, hut that he the hest and gentlest way; Penelope does must remember he had to take with him everything so wisely and gently now; owe trifling encumbrance me. but when she came to look for me, I When the words were written. the knew, before she said a word, that it deed (tone, 1 wee • little startled at my - .elf. it hooked too exceedingly like my making him an offer of marriage ! But had been done in rain. "Dote, you must go yourself end rea- son with him. But take heed what you thee —gond-by. fo.nlish dont ' wend -he me and what von do There is hardly a not about the disease and circumstances of the patient. 8. Tell the news, but not the list of the sick and dying. 9. If possible carry something with you to please the eye and relieve the Monotony of the sick room; a flower; or even a picture which you can loan for a few days. 10. If desirable some little delicacy to tempt will be well bestowed. 11. The perfume of some flowers is poisonous, and these should never be carried int.e, the sick room. Especially is this true of the tuberose, heliotrope. hyacinth, orange, lilac, syringo and lil- ies. Never in defence, nor even in secret 12. Stayonlya moment, or a few tertainers, be sure to thank them for the disobedience; and I reminded him how min utes at the longest, unless you can all things had been carried on --open an pleasure you have had. Do not stay toe, plain- from first to last; how patiently late, but ecoid being the tint to go; or if we had waited; and how, if Max were You must leave early, do it as quietly as well and prosperous, I might still have possible, let your withdrawal should be said"We will waft a little longer. the signal for otherst» leave, thus break- ing theparty too Mon. Jena Wllllrag's WIm/e*a. Naw— -- "W'e11, and now r. I went down on my very knees, and The man who gets bit twice by the with team and and soba bteeoought my sarue dog is better adapted for that kind father to let me be wife. of business than any other. It was in vain. There is a great deal of religion in the "(fond -night; go to your bed. Dora, world that is like • life preserver. only and weary me no more." pet on at the moment of danger, and I rose, certain now that the time was cone when I must choose between two duties- -between father and husband; the one to whom i owed existenti., the other to whose influence I owed every- thing that had made me a girl worth living or worth loving. !tech crises de come to poor soak' God guide than, for He only can. " Onod.night, father." My lips felt dry and stiff. it was scarcely my own voice that i heard. "I will wait: then are still a few days.' He turned suddenly upon me. "What are your plennings ? Tell the truth." "I mean to do so." .\rad then, brief- ly for each word came out with pain, se if it were a last broth --1 explained that Dr. (Trgnhart wnuld have to leave for Canada in a month - that. if we had gained my fathers eon int. we untended h. hu rot then half the time lout on hind Ride he - fore. Experience is • school where a man lawns what • leg fool he has been. The man that doesn't believe in say hereafter bas got • dreadfully mean *- *ion of himself and bis chanties. Then are two kinds of foods in this woke{, --those who ant change their epees, sad times who won't. A good doctor is a gentleman to whore we pay three dollen a visit for advising is to sat lees and exercise more. Ost in the world men show us two tides to their characters; by the fireside only one. The urorld is filling up with educated fool/. Mankind read too much and lawn tona little. 1ver nazi has has follies. and often- times they arethe moat interestingthinrs be of none help. 13. Speak a word for the Master. "Let us play we were married," said little Edith, and I'll bring my dolly and say 'See baby, Irapa. "' "Yes,' replied Johnny, "and I will say, `Don't bother me now. I want to look at the paper.' Children have strange ideas of grown folks' ways, now, haven't they? 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