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BY DOLORJTA M. CANNON.
Tr:« for p*mralAT»
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lead me where he will—nay,
what has he not already done!
Did not the mother of my child
die, with the passionate prayer
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morning, and I will offer mine at
5 for little Paul. Do not forget
the hour, Agnes. * *
think I had better go.
night, sister.”
p-21 brother 1 " I called softly after
i little gate, “do be rareful going
through the woods.’"
“I will ’* he answered. “Don’t
worry, Agnes.
the way all right now.”
At that moment i_ _ ,
emerged from the shadow of thejerful^of limb and
trees and joined him. j yet, when I tell you that in that
“Father Hamilton," said Paul brief quarter of an hour in which
Hammond, “I will walk through I boro but partly the weight of :
the woods with you. It “11 do ±Lt fr- -------- *
me good.’’ My brother of course muscle
protested, but to no avail, and! to its u1
little wood and were soon Jost In I
its shadow.
Chapter 17. [
About an hour after my]
brother left me I was sitting;
alone with the child, saying my)
R°e*ry, when I heard the open - j
ing of the little garden gate and I
presently Paul Hammond came! was u---- B..
softly into the room and stood! inatiou—’then, what was ii°
with folded r---**• * - ’ • * - -- ■
the bed. I
. I had foi-
1 lev; cd himao often that I felt that I
kr-^ r toe very <ioownt of the
Elevation, and bowed my head;
and when after a few moments I
lifted it again and looked once
' more in the pale face of the
' sleeping child, I suddenly saw a
k; the lips ware compressed, and! here among us as an aOgei of
Then slowly parfad in a faint* mercy to heal the sick, to com-
smile—and then—all at once— tort the sorrowful and to uplift
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their t His Name that I have lived to
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ing fat*. : ed away and waa soon lost in the
“Father!** (.shadow of toe path bqyond.
The word owm faintt?, below l ( To Be Seat Wack.)
“He ia certainly much weaker
-- Lj was last night, Mrs. |
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i ling with expressed emotion.
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Hamilton, comes the unaccourt-
able part of my etory, and
God k nows, I tell you but th-r:
bare and simple truth. At firnr I
noticed how extremely frail he!
waa, and how like a little child's !
was the weight upon my arm,!
when al! at once it began to!
grow heavy—so heavy that be- !
fore we reached the end of the
wood I felt that I would die of1
that dreadful burden. I am a:
(fyiufinuetl.) worst.
That afternoon at 4 o’clock -^&o*e.”
I vm again wending my way
cter d'-e **
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isg < .
because
M<ir. '
whom
“Good morning, Father! and •
Agnee—you should be in bed, 3
from the look of those tired eyes. S
Is the child still living?” x
“Still living, doctor!” I ©x-1 w
claimed; “not only is he still■ 3
■»u iwi ,uw j<wu wm — mere wm uu iuuuu mj urea*. > ——- be has taken nourish- i
soon know. Last night—nay, the ineffable silence, which wae; raent twice since 7 o’clock and te
the night before, tor it is now) indeed like the eilence of death, j baa spoken to his father and to | S
nearly day. I went as you know j save the gurgling of a tiny rill i me« Rn<^ when my brother came
in the night for your •smther. i which tumbled with mad Laughter be clung to hitn just as he always [
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Christopher who, ehe eaid, car-
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mows OF the priesthoodI
your brother
—--w We walked out together and
path through the quiet: m*t Jean Marie at the gate,
I had my rosary hang- [ “How is your little patient,
C( nvemently at my side, I Doctor?” he asked. “He is past
•el d=ua.!y carried i:—partly I hope I think. Father,” said
. I I’.ved it and partly to j “*e °W man, “but still I have
by tnia simple act, her, nown y°ur prayers to work
the Church had re- wonders—they may do soi
n I in tbia caee. I muot go now, as !
Samson j
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He is terribly uneasy,
poor man."
The child turned hia languid
due »yea upon her while she
and then the white lids .
fbtflped slowly and he was asleep.
Ib*n he
Ariton.”
M!iideed he is, poor Iamb. I
the night, Agnes.”
alone.
>*« the dawn of the redemption?!
entered is *11 1 have left!”
But there was no answering
found toar in the tender pictured eyes—
on no wavering of the changeless,
joyful smile; he found no sym-
sir.king Patby there—he was quite alone
i in his grief,
After Jean Marie had said a
. , prayers at the bedside we that and yet I cannot give him' sufficient to stay,
indquick through the colorless went^out, he and I, on the little; up; and you will yet see. Miss prayer of Moses
lift. I knelt on t__ ’... „„ 7-—*- T* “ „
rile and he lifted his little trem- :tb® slanting sunbeams quivered
Wag hand and touched me* on
the cheek. I took it in my own
ind kissed it. E.. _r-_. ..... , , , , , . . ...z
but’ could not bear him. until the empty cage which had once 1 humor to speak of it to-night I wanted him henceforth to be
I caught the held the child’s heart-treasure, land to you; perhaps I should! his guardian—to bring him yp
>• i “Agnes, you must remain here never feel so again. I have al- strictly in the faith in which he
dear to-night.” j ways been skeptical, Miss Ham-iWM baptized, and to make of
Where is “Very well, brother; but 11 iiton, as to all creeds, but most 1 him in the end, God willing, a
hope when the worst comse that particularly the Catholic creed, I priest like himself. If I have I
land have scoffed at miracles a I wearied you with thia recital,
! thousand times—God forgive me! I forgive me; I felt that I must
miracle ) speak of it to-night and to you;
msv—» mimclo | sgihb plo&ss God, I will toll
whose overwhelming palpability' you why. But see, it ia almost
well nigh crushed me to the' day and Paul Marie still sleeps;
earth, skeptic though I was up to' but he will awaken—I have no
that moment, nay, I think that fear!" |
in the last two days I have suf- This must be the faith thel
fered something of that anguish: Master spoke of when He said
which moot have rent the heart > that it would remove mountains,
of the Apostle Paul when in the, I said to myself, and I marveled
first hours of bis conversion he: more and more,
pondered in his blindness over I He left me now and went out
past misdeeds! Since the hour into the porch where I could hear
this thing occurred, Miss Ham- him walking gently up and down,
iiton I have never been able to t did not oalt Mn), A(lhtoni who
think of it without this dreadful: ctill slept. I knew that ehe was
tremor seizing me. ’ He held 1 tire4i B[ld j waB nott <nd go j 8tajd
out his hand and it shook so vio- on Wllh apparently lifeless
lently that, seeing he could net child; for it seemed even now
at all master bis emotion, I be- ; that he was at the door of death,
sought him to deiwt, but he did His breathing was short and
not even seem to hear me. ’ labored, and still the heavy dews
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in his black robs smiling in my Jaan Marie and L as children,
face and speaking as gently as ; And yet, in spirit, I was follow-
though I were his dearest frissi. ing ths Maas I knew he was
though he knew I hated both ' offering at that hour. I had fol-
him and hia crs»I and came to ‘
him through shea.* eecossity—
my chlld’a welfare. I hud no
sooner made my revfj’Mt than he
was r• to accompany me
and. ; ■ .Miring his black robe,
— - ’ —r—i tn* <L—r mg® w£3Ui*re wmh
we were about half way through
the W'>od toe lantern 1 parried
went out. This did not trouble
me, aft 1 knew toe way so well,
but pr.rtendy your brother #tom- ———» ——— ,— - , *
, — — „ bled WM-toe thick andergrow to blue Kgbt into the father’s bend-[•«» your day —and then Be tart-
S’ Z^TwKfr tTb^nlaS «d would have fallen bad I not *“ !’ *nH *“•no" 1r^r" th-
F°vitnent by dark.
*r. Hammond now
sector,"
I »m glad to see that he had
Gerald, who had jeen our
™0y physician for many years,
*nnd and true gentleman and
trough Catholic. Wha: 1 par-
“’’leriy admired about him was
7*^ ha would never allow hie
JjJteicnai duties to interfere
**“ hie duty to God—nay, hei
was a faithful attendant
* **** on Sundays and holi-
y* but I have often seen him
during the week and am
wre that none of bis
ever suffered an extra-
~J®«y Inconvenience in oon-
y*110*- He was decidedly the
JJ^Phyrician in that part of the I
’ ®*y came In together, and he
j** for a few minutes looking
into the pale face df the
«leeper and then turned
k* **nt out into the porch,
■^toning me to foUow.
■ he aaid, “has the
w*teen baptized?”
ijLr*?** I answered, “Jean
baptized him last night.
dg"”* Gerald, I hope he will not
*fc*id it ia useless to
•fcild. I do not believe
ever awaken again in this
*^° n°4 know wdian I
Mr^**** Mt for any on* as I do
wretched man,
landing with my face to
jB2‘’00e rid eoald see that the
| knae&lag where I had;
with to* time listless hsnd
snd rawing with si! his
hsart in his *yes, into
bssutiful slseptog fans.
taM him tosr* was
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threshold of your door before it daisies kissed it as they used to A,. n?s? ’ ■ WBwte i
was opened and he stood there | do whan we wandered there, “A:mool< ^en;^ mir pw •
• ' " - - - ■ - five this m . ang; my brother >
said Mass for h:m at hve; Ye |;t
suddenly awakened fronc “’■ Atji;
long, deep sleep and epoke to ,us
father and haa continued to im- |
prove since then.”
The old man looked at Jean
Marie and then bent hia gray
head over the hand he still held
in hi* own.
“May God be praised,my son,”
quiver pass like a shadow over he said, “for having sent you
it; the lips ware compressed, and here among tu as an angel of
than slowly parted in a faint! mercy to heal the sick, to com-
th* glorious eyes opendd wide,' the sinful and the weak. I
bright, tender—flashing their'His Name that I have
lecond ;<tyfui mystery,which had j “*e child’s head cool and tell
twrhai a pr<;uliar attraction f<Jr;7jre‘ Ashton to lay him down,
xe; ' )rto.-d my soul with joy : ”e will be more comfortable on
x !:i. iw m spirit that gentle bed.*’
-omsr as quietly, quickly I went to do his bidding, fol-
weade<l h-r way over the green lowed by Jean Marie, who,
jn.,4 ui J j<iea to visit the mother standing for a few minutes by
of Sl . I think they must, toe ma itlepiece where the father
jure ijnififn into blossom be- ■ was leaning with hie face hidden
nests thy fetri, ob, gentle queen in his bands,came to the bed and
ddainu! I think the white mists , taking out the holy oils anointed
c! ria: roseate dawn muse have toe steeping child. When he
-seirad int’> happy tears before’ touched the snowy lips, the
tbee I trunk the gladsome bird’»| blue eyes opened and he'looked
wild music-.rill must have fallen i about him with a smile, bright,
teaHii»n at thy approach whose beautiful, but so brief that we
step wm music and whoso an-■ ecarcely believed that we had
npturf'i smile was boundless ’ eeen it before it had faded away
benediction and delight. And , and he was asleep once more.
riepnerds watching on the quiet- As I had stepped softly to the
hula— not knowing why—with I mantel for a bottle of holy water
parsing gaze looked after thee; -1 bad placed there when I came
ltd XesK lambs broke away and >n, I saw the man lift hia white
followed thee! For wert not thou f*ce toward the picture above,
thetivin^Ark of God, the glory of wbich looked down with its won-
thy people Israel, whose advent. drous smile upon the scene.
>*s the dawn of the redemption? “Oh,Miriam,"he said brokenly,
Then I reached the littb: cot- not take him from me. He
tigeby the hill i quietly
ttwfaM and went into the house
without knocking, and
H.-3. Ashton with the child
her knees.
He was evidently i =
There were great purple rings
iround the beautiful half-closed 1
»y»« and the breath came abort
ii me co;uriesa ~ _..u ...... , a[lu you win yei, see, miss ui (uuooa ui uiu, me
the floor by his porch. It was growmg late, and 1 Hamilton, that he will be spared ! avenging hand of the Almighty
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through the lattice vines and lay you, while I tell you that which I on «uch as I!—I told him. Miss
in a net-work of gold upon the j had .. I ”
He'spoke then floor and Jrembled^softly through to mortal’ ears'; but T feel 'in "the I spared (and ho will* be!) that
bmdiag my head I caught the held the child’s heart-treasure, land to you; perhaps I should! his guardian—to bring him yp
venie ’’Father Hamilton." j “Agnes, you must remain here never feel so again. I have al- strictly in the faith in which he
"He wifi be here soon, dear to-night.” j ways been skeptical, Miss Ham-iV'*8 baptized, and to make of
little one,” 1 aaid. T.'l ._ —" *•—u-‘ T ... ... v = .... . .
Mr. Hammond, Mrs. Aahtcn?” ! .
"He went fur the doctor again, Tou wi!1 b» here,
'aes. Ha ia nn»«av [ “I will try to I
i i MI wm uuuju
to-night and perhaps in the mean
time will send John to see how
he is. Poor Mr. Hammond!
Here he comes, Agnes.”
I turned away my head aa he
came up to my brother.
“Are you going to let him
die?" he asked, his voice tremb-
r. i UJU^ TTltu -JU.....— .*,
cannot leave vou | “I let him die! Oh, Mr. Ham-
I answered “Iwili:mon”» said Jean Mane, don t
«ay with you if there is no im- ! y°u knQW that 1 wou‘d B*ve hi“
Th-ra is i could?"
with th*| "You have not tried,” said the
I man, “you who, they told me in
' the village this evening, have al-
most raised the dead to lite—who,
they tell me, are all charity to-
ward even your greatest enemies,
have not offered one prayer that
my boy might be spared to me.”
“Mr. Hammond,” said my
brother, a sudden light flashing
in his beautiful eyes, “since you
wish it, I will do so. At 5 o’clock
to-morrow morning I will offer
Mass fcr his recovery.”
“I do not know what the Mass
is, ” he replied, “but if you say
it, Father Hamilton, it must be
good. I atill have hope.”
I turned in unutterable aston-
ishment and looked at the speak-
This was the unbeliever who
had declared that his child
should never be baptized!
At eleven o’clock that night
Jean Marie returned to the cot-
tage. The child had slept on,
hour after hour, and indeed
seemed to be gradually sleeping
his liti.e life away. We mad©
Mrs. A>bton go to rest, and he
and I sat there in th* quiet night
by the bedside. He had his
breviary with him and for • long
time was so absorbed in prayer
that he hardly eeemed conscious
of my presence. About 1 o’clock
I insisted that b® toonid go horn*
and go to rest.
“I really do not need you,
brother." I said. “You have
don* all yr"i could for th** little
iouvw -j--- _ —,
Did Father Diamond ooM in
this •vwning?"
"Yw. Helrivri *g*in.jtow-
sver, at 9 o*tatoe^ to-eMwroK
morning. I Mt Bowmry Jmp-
ly interested in htesttwlM oTIr*-
jand. wber* h* bte WWitly
rTzz*___ —i-o- ea hia asrarf
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naniXQnd
him as he went out through the
through the woods.’
“I will ” he anew
I have learned
ow.” i that dreadful burden. I am a:
a dark figure j strong man, Miss Hamilton, pow-
•--to.. Lf Lf llJ muscle, and
j yet, when I tell you that in that:
said Paul brief quarter of an hour in which
It will do that frail priest, every nerve and ' *
‘ i of my body was strained
,-----—---------------itaost capacity—that the!
they walked together toward the! sweat poured from my face upon :
im,---j —j------ . * * 1 th* ground—that on reaching the'
steps of my cottage I sank down
upon .them'weak and exhausted,
while your brother, utterly un- '
con scions of what had transpired,!
hurried into the house—I state:
only the simple facts to you as’
they occurred. I have never In-
dulged in liquor in my life, and j
came ‘ was never given to strong imag- I
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arms at the foot of have asked myself that question,'
waa leaning down ■ Miss Hanriltou, a thousand times
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Jrttiv arntuwed the title of Queen ! ;n,lhia oxa®- I muot go now, as • q«*ck breath, so
of the M.«t Huiy Rosary—I took |1 ^“ve °toer important calle to ! BC^rCely ®eet“®d
j.:D my nands and began the I before night. Agnes,keep { ** B“~\Dd.eod’,. h»
°. -l. v j ; th a r-Mizi’- j > _ j . f, ’ nave been dead for all the sign
of life there waa in him; but the
feeble pulse still flickered in the |
little hand I held clasped in my to have him baptized unheeded
own. Great drops of perspiration ! by me?—And yet on that night,
hung on the silken curls kissing: after I had borne that dreadful
the marble brow. How fair he burden through the woods, 11
was! How innocent and pure—; could no more resist the reproach !
like to the angels of God. j in his piercing eves, than I could
Presently the father spoke to! resist the burning of a flame Into
me. “Miss Hamilton, you must which I had been suddenly
be very tired. If you will go and thrust—and with my own hands
rest a little while I will watch by11 brought water from yonder
him and will call you if there is. spring with which to baptize my
any change.” ! child, and then stood in the
,“y°» J »m not tired," I re-' shadow and watched him; and
tunon e-Asrin k J _
I in peace’ rang through
to cast myself upon my knees
before him and beg the same
up; and you will yet see, Miss prayer
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. child, and then stood in
plied, “I promised my brother! when the words’Paul Marie,jjo
not to leave the little one to-1 in peace’ rang through
night, and I much prefer that silence of the night, the impulse
you should rest, for you have ---
been up night and day."
“I see, Miss Hamilton, you peace for my own* darkened"
think be is dying.” troubled soul was almost
“Indeed, Mr. Hammond,” I *’— T ----,J '---- r
replied, looking up into the not bear it, but rushed out into;
searching eyes that were so
tently regarding me, “I think IWtt8 over.
your boy extremely low and I 1 parted from him at the rectory
think you had better be prepared 8*te, ha asked me to pray for
for the worst. Ard oh, Mr. Ham- j bim—and I, overwhelmed with
mond, think what he would es- ] affliction and anxiety though I
cape if he should go now, before; smiled in his face at the re-
his beautiful soul has known the quest—that such a one as I
weight and shadow at sin I” j should pray for him—-for him,
"Yes, yes," he answered, be- whose faintest sigh is echoed in
ginning to pace rapidly up and | heaven—for him, whose lightest
down the room, “I think of all j wish breathed forth in prayer is
,-----. .. . ■ ....rr.:—* as did the
Moses of old, the
mu un njjarwu j — ••••»• —-
to me. And now listen, I beg of: when about to fall tn .punishment
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never thought to breathe • Hamilton, that if my boy was
his breath; yet I think that never
since the heart of Adam thrilled
'neath its utterance from the lips
of his first-born, has the heart of
man been so enraptured as was
Paul Hammond's at that moment
when it came from lips we had
all believed—-a.il indeed save the
father—were sealed forever!
At ten o'clbek that morning
we were standing, my brother
and I, at the little gate, ready to ■,
start home when we saw Dr. I
“Some years ago, Mies Ham- J hung thick on the clustering hair Gerald going by on his way to
iiton, my fair young wife”—land there was not the slightest Ann Richardson’s, who had not
pointing with his trembling hand | quiver of the lids half -covering I J’6t, recovered from her illness,
coward the smiling picture— the glazed, blue eyes. I could J Seeing us standing there he
“told me a story of a man called I not take my eyes from his face, • came toward us.
’l" ’ ’ and when at last the clock on ---1
the mantis struck 5 he came in
and, kneeling down on the other
site of the bed, took the little
cold hand in his and gently
■on for recalling thia you will: —there waa no sound to break ; alive but he has taken nourish-
■oon know. Last night—nay, the ineffable silence, which wae i raent twice since 7 o’clock and
nearly day. I went aa you know j save the gurgling of a tiny rill i me« Rnd when my brother came
in the night for your brother, i which tumbled with mad Laughter he clung to hitn just as he always
The child turned from me and : down toe groat hill at the back I does and told him he was nearly
begged for bitn and Chough half of the cottage. And I found my- j well; and indeed, doctor, he is a
mad with grief and jealousy I e«;*---1---1
could not refuse him. I had I naw, ana if the green
scarcely let my-foot upon the I drooped over it and the mounte.'n ;rf ;1
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