The west shore., April 01, 1889, Page 198, Image 29

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j.rrw.f th-woman ! had woefully wronged,
iu the 1 r un' i.f who wouM aooii bear testimo
uy agiw.t hi in hi th- bar of supreme justice. Strange
ly bright were lh nick woman' she turned
them ( hin ai.d h l.l out Lit thin Lund. All her
own wrongs n ignond. aho thought of nothing
now but her child.
" Hugh, Hugh, I mo dying; I may never see the
un tiw, and I ant you to promise me ono thing ere
I go. Will you?"
" Souu'lk; hlt-nor! Vou are not going to die,
you n only nervoua Cheer up, and I will bring a
doctor. Why did you not tidl mo before that you
wcr worae? " U turned toward the door.
" Hti.ji, Hugh'" ahoalmoatahrieked, and Ml faint
lujj on the pillow.
" Hon, father, ilio in dying! " cried Bab, wildly.
H-n kin rallied little, but the strain had been
ovrrn on tin mini I atork of vital power left, and bbe
could only H'k in a hoarae whiiiper.
" I'romiiK me, Hugh, that you will not sacrifice
my dove to tlnno vulture. Promise that she need
tirxfT marry a jHilygamiat."
" There, there, Klenor, of courso I'll promise.
Thf girl ihall do m ahe plcaai'n, and marry whom she
drM."
' I you awrar - m ( 11 id your witness - that she
hall doaa hnrh(MHi-i?"
" Vn,an)thii!g you like," he. answered, stooping
It ki. hrr. What im it that, for the moment, had
U.uch.y th rallnua h.art? Could it U the memory
of olhr da) a? iVmbly there came More his men
Ul vition th i,k. f fftjr nm ,,ri(j(i w,10( Jipnrj
Wore, in th.-ir fmWd home, confidingly placed her
hand in hia and jyou,y mljij t() "Jill death
us part," aayir,g, j .ff ...j iy jH1()i,e W
my NTle, and thy (U my (!,!." lVrclmnce, too,
h rr,,mlH.r.U day In n. liking down urx.n the
fra.l yu m,th,.r and their firat-Wn, as aho smiled
up into hit face and whi.,,.r,s shyly, "Our boy"
And thnr, may have fU in th)(
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THE WEST SHORE
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WTe say it may have been thoughts of all this, that,
for the time being, softened the hard heart; or it may
have been only the reflex action that fills any human
breast when brought face to face with death. She
smiled gratefully, the white lids fluttered, once more
the fast glazing eyes turned lovingly on the weeping
girl crouching by the pillow. A short, hard struggle,
and llagh Leslie gazed in stupefied horror on the
ruin wrought by his own hand, while the shrieks of
motherless Bab rang through the house. A fierce
grip on his arm, and the sharp voice of Julia, his sec
ond wife, roused him.
" Get out of here and fetch some one, not stand
a-gawpin'. Bab, shet up; what's the use of hoi
lerin?" Mechanically he turned toward the door, and on
the landing met Clara, wife No. 3. " Take care of
Bab, he said, " and I II bring some one to Elenor."
Elenor how strangely the name sounded now. A
neighbor, the one person that Mrs. Leslie had cared
to see, excepting her child, and sometimes Clara, was
soon in the chamber of death. In vain Clara sought
to have Bab come to her rooms. " I can not leave
my mother," was her one reply.
Hugh Leslie was uncommonly tender toward his
motherless daughter during the weeks following,
much to the irritation of Julia, who said, " Her pap
oughter make he stop moppen and do more work.
Here I bo with five young'uns, and nobody to do a
hand's turn but myself, and her a-playin' the fine la
dy, and Clara a-backin' her up in it "
If ever man received immediate punishment for
sin, Hugh Leslie had for marrying this same Julia.
Vixenish and slatternly she was to the last degree,
and ruled him with an iron band.
Clara was an indolent, good natured person, who
bad taken to Bab and her mother from the first, and
delighted in annoying Julia, Born and reared in
polygamy, she seemed to have no scruples on the
subject, and took life easy. Since the birth of her
boy her health had been poor, and when Bab became
an intimate of her part of the house Bhe willingly
gave the reins into her hands. Julia was far from
truth when she accused the latter of idleness, but she
avoided the vixenish woman as much as possible. If
there was any one in the hnnnn fnr km hA reallv
cured, it was Tom, Clara's baby, and many a lonely
about the
ture of nirTfllM Uut I oared, it was Tom, Clara's baby, and ma
-lf,rat,l,M in,,,, U ,7 ! 7
away trundling him
.for,U,WMt-v,rU.f,,r,ll,rU;;i;rn;:n ,7 y Htreet,. Fluently, too, she and
drraJ that mad, ,,r l frtn ,,. , ' J,' i T U ,DolllPr' "I the day at Clara's
the c
tDs tirravi that mad, !,,, imi frn h(.r , ' j mother, spent the day at Clara's old home,
l-ndrrct car, f ,.,; , , , . . 8 . almost s. mtd that noma nn.n ottnn imided
AoJfar mat, llitl,r u b r M h. the yDg gir, in the formation of habits that were to
Sbl U their fc,,tt. t.,w ,;fi, tU, 1 1 " : Y her salvation bye and bye.
hour of their dilution. ,h" i
' Some two years previous to the events related