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THE 9 th SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
Qflfa-lal Journal «r ikr Parish el
Lufoarche and of the Town or Thibodaax.
Ffoh. xviii.
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1883.
NO. 46
A Daughter's History,
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(ARRCTT SYLVESTER,
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[CONTINUED.]
'•Whocau it be *?" asked Mrs. Reui
ton.
Some leech of a lawyer, I presume*
I tended Mr. Remington
ia wife answered the summons
"Mrs. Mason, madam," said a gruff
met. "Is she in?" 8
Mr.Remington retired to an adjoin.
'- non upon hearing the inquiry,
Jvkea the new comer entered the
jawing-room it was empty.
Wld call her," said Mrs. Reining
in, bowing
.♦•Tell her not to delay, for I am in a
»7i" the rather ungracious re*
(JUh
. He wasa man of about sixty, some
Iwhat inclined to robustness, and of
Khun height.
His features .were, when in repose,
"-•dentlr pleasing, but now they wore
E wft look, and the mouth was
He had not long to wait. Mrs. Rem
fee was scarcely from the room be
rVrs. Mason entered it
he was dressed in plain black, with
lawkUeJnlt at the throat, and,looked,
I wRn her pale face, almost like a nun.
\ "Yo* are Henry Mason's wife?" said
I the stranger, abruptly,
f "Iam,sir"
The gentleman eyed her keenly and
ielearedh is throat.
] "Well, I am his father," he said,
, darplv-"that is. his guardian, for
[ his father is dead."
I "I would that I could say I am hap
[ |T to see you, sir "
I The old gentleman still kept his eye
[tahisson's victim.
"Don't tell a lie on my account,
•Msm. You wish me a' thousand
Ijules away."
"It is immaterial to me," was the
num, careless answer.
Mr. Mason, senior, hushed.
_ "It is, eh? Well, madam, I came
I hare to find out, if 1 could, what yon
Ty ^ do with helping llenry to cuiu
l "'R the crime he has committed, not
r ngninst me, but against his God.
: I cannot think he did it alone, and —"
; "Sir '"exclaimed Nellie Mason,stung
• by the accusation, the hot blooa
t rushing to her temples in a flood—"Sir,
| how dare yon come here with such a
|IJtty charge? I guilty of assisting an
other to do such a base act! If it were
| pot that l respect your gray hairs, 1
1 w&uld have you ejected from the
muse."
She looked superb in her anger. Her
fpjos flashed, her bosom heaved, and,
t to the paced the room before the old
j**H» her hair, becoming loosened, fell
l'••wnher back in jet black waves, and
I produced an effect aimilar te the elfect
i Mr fail- face had made upon the hap
i Jsi8 junior partner of the firm of Ma
lta « Sen.
I* ."What right have you to come here,
wr, with such words on your lips?"
•he asked.
"No wonder Henry was infatuated,"
•uttered Mr. Mason. "Because I
think l may havo been too severe,"
, he said, in a softened tone. ••There
stay have been extenuating circum
?• tonces. Perhaps he was unwittingly
Wd to alter the books and appropriate
i #• funds because of aome sudden
temptation, and, if such is the case,
C thops 1 do wrong in hounding
m d -wn. Yet I hate ingratitude.
. Henry has been terribly ungrateful,
[ *ud more than once, and yet I begin
to think I could forgive him, if ho did
i not premeditate robbing me."
Nellie caught her breath She had
; xuver looked at it in this light
The temptation she bad thought of
uad wondered if her husband was
weaker than other raen won d have
, been if placed in the position be had
[ held. But she did not once think ul
: the suddenness of such a temptation
lending himon to do what he may have
. regretted when too late.
"Do you think he has repented of
hie wickedness?" she asked, quickly,
| end there was an awfnl calm upon her
I face as she spoke.
"I csMiot say, I have kept away
| -from him, and this makes the thinl—
^ nay, the fodrth day of his iucarcna
I Man. Bu.y ou, madam, I came to see
from a auoden notion that you might
I have lured him into it. I perceive ini
uaediately mat lam utterly mistaken
£ Your fkce denotes innocence itself. I
f beg your pardon for uttering such dis
, graceful iusinuations."
[ Here theold man'e voice broke, and a
1 shower of tears courted dew* bis tor
| rewsd cheeks.
"Oh, Heaven!" he greened, "that
; ta boy who waa my pride should
I bnng such shame upon me!"
■ His grief moved the heart of the
C ig wife, and for the first time since
terrible night when she had fallen
•Muck by the sudden shock ot ner die
wta.she wept.
|. fn.iir," she murmured, "you do
tat feel the bio if more keenly th n m v
ijHf- . I am doomed to go through the
bearing the brand of a criminal's
Pb. Yet. though Ijvfw, I can sym
pathize with you Mr heart nas neon
steeled against everything for the put
few days except the nursing of any
own unhappy thoughts.**
The old man looked up
"I want to see him," ne said.
'wilt
yon go with me to the prison?"
Nellie started.
"Go to the prison !"
•"Yes, as soon as possible"
She hesitated a moment.
" Will you go?" a ked Mr. Mason im
patiently, the tears still streaming
down his cheeks.
"i will tell you to-night," replied
Nellie, hastily, and the oid stern ex
pression came back to her featured.
"Not before?"
"Not before."
Mr. Mason rose to his, feet, and
brushed away the tears from his eyes.
"Think,then," be -aid, "that he has
injured me no lesa th a you. and 1 am
ready, I believe, to forgive him all."
When he was gone, Nellie Mason ran
qu.ckly up the stairs to tho top of the
house and tapped at the door of her
qnc> Richard's room.
Receiving no answer to her summons,
she tried the handle. It yielded and
the door opened. ,
At a table sat the man she sought.
His head was bowed forward, and
rented on t.ie htfd wood- Ho soomod
asleep.
Netiie entered the room quietly, end,
going up to him, touched him
lightly on the shoulder.
"Uncle Richard 1"
Richard Martin started and looked
up.
"Oh, uncle!" cried Nellie, appalled.
The face she looked into resembled
more the dead than the living. It was
white—ghost-like, fetrful I
"What is it, Nellie?"
"I wish to ask a question."
".Speak—1 listen."
"Do you think I ought to visit mv—
my husband in prison? Old Mr. Ma
son has been here aua desires me to go
with him to see Henry."
"YYhy doyoua.sk me?" said Richard
-Martin, huskily " Why do you come
to me rather than your lather, or your
mother... - . .
" Because l have such faith in your
judgment, uncle. Young as you are,
you have seen enough of this world
to be able to advise oue who wishes to
do her duty, however hard that duty
may be. On your advice I place great
reuance" l .
Tbe man turned his Lack upon his!
mecr.
v " You ought not to come heft, child.
I " «*y f«uiings--yiiu know that
"Y*es, Richard Martin, I know that!
you love uie," said Neilie, calmly.
"You confessed it that night—that
awful night -and that is why I know
you would advise me rightly. My
young life has been a burden, but I am
determined to do ail 1 can to end it as
l bvgan it, with a full knowledge that,
for some unknown reason, it was defl
creed that 1 should suffer in the place
of my parents, lam Henry Mason's
legal wile; duty bids me to hold to iny
marriago vows, for better or for worse.
If it is wor»e, 1 must bow to the de
cree "
"You are right, Nollie," muttered
Mr. Martin, "you are right. But can
you expect uie to advise you iu this
matter?"
" Yes, for you love me, and, were I
not at this moment in a galling bond-*
age, I believe 1 could return your affec
tion.''
She spoke calmly and looked him full
in the face as sho concluded
"Nellie Maaon! in Heaven's name,
what do you mean?"
"Can l speak plainer?"
A strange, mocking smile passed
over Richard Martin's features.
" But you area married woman," he
said. -
"And yet t dare love other than mv
husband, for him I never loved, end 11
spoke falsely at the altar when I said
that I did. He might have won mv!
heart in time, had he been other than
he is, but 1 did not then know your
noble, self-sacnticing heart. " She!
paused abruptly.
"Shall 1 visit Henry Mason"" she
asked presently.
"Yes." was the quiet answer, as the*
man walked to tne other end of the!
room.
The next morning old Mr. Mason!
called at the house again, and was in
formed that the young wile would goi
with him to the prison.
It was ten o'c ock when the old gen
tlcman and his companion reached the
dreary place.
The jailer took them along the cor
ridor to cell No. lx, and opened the
narrow grating with the remark that
No. 12 was not feeling very well; he
had eaten no breakfast.
Upon entering the cell, the prisoner
was fonnd lying on a rude straw pal
let, his face turned toward the door.
A smile lit up his countenance as the
two visitors came up to his bedside.
"Thank God,you are both here," he|
said,"nowlean die happy."
"Die! fudge!" grumbled theold man.
"They aav you haven't eaten anything
to-day. Well, here's a basket of deli
cacies, fixed up by the most beautiful
woman in the city, I do believe. If
tbe^ de not wiu your appetite nothing
"Yes, Henry," said his wife, pleas
antly (and,oh, what an efiort it cost
her)—"yos, Henry, yon must eat some
thing nt once. It won't do to go hun
« r fi , '
The prisoner shook his hssd,
sadly.
"My boy," said Mr. Mason, in n
trembling voice, and the tars came
mto his ores. "I am sorry I was so
hasty, for I begin to think you may
have had a fearful temptation to over-'
come, and scarcely strong enough
to bear it- I do not mean to say that
yon wore at all right in doing what
you did, but only desire to let you
,. 0,r that I ought to have given you
a fair chance to return what yon pil
H,' * 1 n<i llve to repent without beiBg
,i»nP? 8 th,ef T°ur own guar
dian. Pity for your sweet wife also
moves me to have you released by
hook or crook, and let right in the
eyes oi the world."
whatever ° rdS SOemefc ' to b * Te no effect
He lay in the si ae position and
hardly moved as he beckoned Nellie
DBRrer*
"Tel! him he need say no more." he
j muttered in her ear as she bent beside
I lb « Pallet. "1 am beyond feeling "
j , Bu 'though he spoke low, the elder
j JIamiu heard him.
] "Nonsense, Henry !" he ejaculated,
| and his voice was as changed as his
manner. "Why, boy, you act as if
I there were no energy in you- But feel
| iug —— [ don't believe you are so bad
| as to have lost that "
j Silence reigned for a moment. No
' reply was made by the prisoner, and
his wife seemed in a -----" °*
• - . - »
j T'u" -----reverie, she .
°°^ ,,,S r» p0n h l S ***£' her e ? es
halt closed. It may have been that .
some emotion was stirred within her— j
'•ome tender emotion-and straggled to !
find vent in tars. Presently tho at
"r.Th"/' 0k "' j
^.Th. w.rd. were ottered in eetj low j
In an instant the old man drew aear. 1
"A private word with vou" nm !
and, taking up tho basket of deli
cacies, set it on an old three-legged f
stool. She then uncovered its con-!
tents and bea'iin arrBnariau, »kt>
to*JtiJ and began arranging tho dishes
What her husband said she did not
hoar , but she saw the tears steal down
the listener's cheeks, and presently
saw them chased away by a smile- i
Sorrow and hope seemed to alternate. '
i When the repast was ready, Nellie 1
plhced it before him, usi. g the stool
for a table.
You will take it from my hand >•
she asked, her voice less harsh
than when she entered.
A faint smile lit up Henry Mason's
features. "Yes, ah,yes I How could
l-"
He slopped short.
" 'Refuse,'you wo dd say, she said,
finishing the sentence fur uim. "You
ought not, for 1 am your wife, you
know, ana what is mine is also yours."
!
i
|
I
I
J jUUiS* l
Whether or not he placed a different
construction on this speech from what j
she intended to convey, she did not I
scern to care. Conscience evidently :
hnd urged her to make it. Duty—the !
duty of the wife—was uppermost in j
duty of the wife—was uppermost in
her mind, and by her conduct, she
may have led the unfortunate mail to
entertain a false hope.
!
|
a. tk •. .
Tn a few weeks the excitement over
the arrest of the junior partner of
the firm of Henry Mason & bon died
away; and the affair was almost for
ffnttun VhVW litf ihu lilt oru^l.i.l non
CHAPTER XVIL
men ARD MARTIN is STARTLED.
gotten save by the. interested par
ties.
Even the gossips and mongers of
other peopic s business, which they
knew more of than their own,subsided
ai d the Remingtons could ouce more
walk the streets without being
viewed as curiosities.
Mrs. Mason did not visit her hus
banu again, bhe kept within doors
and ret used to see anyone. The
humiliation of her position galled her,;
almost to desperation at times. Had
she herself committed the crime, she
z\ ? m r,
hi i " ,d f ' °J all , her t " bul * t,OB
»he tolled to look into and analyze
her own false .step. It did not occur to
'* A d j; ealljr J? 0eU gU,it /
much that other women w ould
have rightly denounced, bhe did not
fathom the wrong done both herself
and the man she married, bne
thought not of how all this misery
wonld have been avoided had she re
mauied true to her noblest instincts,!
despite poverty and a desire to help
others. Though she shrank from an
acknowledgement of the fact, even
to hci>eif , yet she had sworn falsely,!
for she had sworn to love, aonor and
obey one whom she at first coulu
scarcely call a friend, and whom now
Xd 'zlo
nal? Had sho been taunted with!
falsehood, she would have denied all
such intention, of course, and, uo
doubt, would hare thought that she
did proper, because the marriage was
hasty, and she had no time to reflect.
Then again, she would have declared
that she was beginning to love—nay,'
did love her husband, but that he
had turned affection tutu hate by his
villainous conduct.
No, she diwtoot reflect on her own
conduct, but worried, worried,
herself into a fever because of an
other's. The seething brain could not
resist the terrible pressure pat upon
it, and body aad mind finally sac
The fever that laid her low shut oat
events transpiring about her, so thst
she heard not the news that came one
morning to her parents, causing them
somewhat of joy even in
their grief.
a thst came one
ts, causing them
in thq midst of
Richard Martin, who had became
almost misanthropic in his manners,
and,generally, kept by himself, on
this particular morning, had been out
walking, as usual. As Ue was pass
ing by one of the prominent hotels ol
the city, he noticed, standing just
within the doorway, an old Irieud.
The gentleman did not notice him,
j and had not his better nature
I triumphed, he would hare gone on.
"Nay," he said to himself, "why
; should 1 feel bitter toward him ? He
j has suffered enough, and he loves the
j boy "
The next moment he was shaking
j u urn was
■ bands w,tb tb « »«>°r Mason.
i Tho turn mallrn/I At.
The two walked down the street
] arm in arm, and it was then Richard
i Martin learned the secret that was
soon afterward revealed to the Remin
tons.
Young Henry Mason had been re
leased from jail and had left the city.
Under cover of the darkness he had
been driven from the prison to the
railroad station. Where he had gone
tde old gentleman did not state.
"Ah, Martin," he said, "you all
blame the boy. and I suppose he is to
be severely censured. But if s ou knew
nAWT Km O ek*..A si.:.. ____A* _ . ■ ••
vuuouicu* AJ U b II V u 11 Knew
how he felt about this matter—oh. if
* ou kllew • His is a passionate nw
ture—heis quick to do wrong and as
quick to renwt. And than
reflect" P a * ®°* ! ' not
' , «. , . „ .
o.n *!t',
Ricl!»fd e |!»MLU U »?i*^ before, replied
i* b * would not have
, ««nry Mason staged and almost
topped his companion's arm.
"You do not mean i© say_"
"That she is prostrated with brain
fever; exactly."
---■' w " " sueuee ioi
tuom '«tts, then Mr. Mason said:
"Richard in* h«e»i hiaaeia
Theold man uttered a groan.
They walked on in silence fora few
Richard, my heart bleeds for Nel
lie, and I pray heaven she may recov
er. Oh! that she had confidence in me.
J could tell her. perhaps, something
that would relieve her of one great
weight."
"That von could not Mateon, for,
should she recover, she could never
forget that her husband is a thief."
" But suppose I should sav different
ly. Suppose I should tell her that he
committed no theft after all ? What
then ?" 4
What then? Why of course, she
o a vuuiac, nuc
^ id L k "?T^° Ufalatrly tbll>u « h
Wl ,L a ^ en k,ndness -
' Then I should tell her that the ac
counts of the firm bad been made
and * great mistake rccti
•Mistake?"
II as thejunior Mason innocent af
ter all ?
Ri'hard Martin was almost dumb
i founded. Perhaps there was a feeling
! vnthiu him antagonistic to such a
discovery. Should it be proven that
' that there was, indeed, no case
j against the young partner, the voung
wife would not be likely to longer en
UTtain her prejudice against him
j Miould she recover, a reconciliation
! might be effected, and then
..... 1
No divorce could be procured, and
that was exactly w hat Mrs. Nellie
Mason's uncle had been cogitating
j over —how u Hp.tr.tii/n wight he be.it
, r.niy/it olrr'it. To her the thoughts of
I his mind were entirely unknown, and
j itowever wild the idea, he had been
j determined upon it.
' Once free from the man who had
! disgraced her and caused all her mis
! ery, she might '>e induced to love one
who had an affection for the very
; ground on which she walked,
M e would dn all mon.i „„i,i
P r"
; ous life, and they should live an ex
| istence of unalloyed happiness and
! lnaee undisturbed by aiy ; so h«
dreamed, but alas! his dreams were
, now rudely swept away by an awaken
in . to the new posit.o£ of affairs,
I 3 | t so ? is ne innocent, then J"
: wui. . . .. . . ' ,. ,
j m ) •A Ver ' ls thoughts, he did not
bttr *Y tbein in his question,
"Stranger things have happened,",
i -epued .Mr. Mason, and are all liable
| t0 stumble in makiug up accounts."
| "Thst is no answer, Mason. Don't,
at this late day, attempt to screen the
wicseu. Speak direct! Is Henry
Mjsoii innocent?''
"He is—as innocent as a Iamb."
; „„ T , h 'r„!I,' Jd ' d: "«•*
1 "V 1 *
! Aor dld be » bu t one knowing fill
•■vouid not have hesitated to declare
tb at he spoke deceitfully. ^
' Richard Martin imparted to the
; Remingtons the fact that young
. Mason had been released and departed
to a place unknown to him, bat noth
i ing more. Within his own heart he
locked the remainder of the secret,
j But from that day his mind became
| so disturbed that, do what he would,
j he could find little rest. His nervous
actidns often attracted the attention
j of the Remingtons, but Horace Reut
ington knew that it would do no good
j to question him.
| "Ah!" said Mr. Remington, one
l day, just after his half-brother had
i tofi the room iu rather au abrupt
manner -"ah! Dick grows more like I
: u ed to be. His whole naturo seems
manner-"ah! Dick grows morelik
u ed to be. His whole naturo see
j uadergoinr * change for the worse.
Mothers! Mothers !!
Mothers!!!
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