a changed decision chapter iv spaxles information was only too correct boae was ill was suffering from a virulent type o tnwllptx and was even in this shore time seriously altered for the worse again was the house cleared again was the train ed nurse sent for and it was plain that each person who saw rose took an unfavour able view of her case she was beginning to wander in her mind but she never failed to know kodbury smiling after a sad tearful fashion when he came to her side and kissing his hand while she strove to say in broken words how sorry she was to find herself giving so much trouble rather an incoherent speech it may be but she wished him to know it was upon his account not her own she was regretful now this was a terrible fir for rodbury to quote his own reflection he was for the afterwards recalled the unaccustomed peace and hush of that moment 1 the room had hitherto been kept darken ed but the blind was now dravn up and it was light enough yet rose still wore a shade over her eyes the window was open and the soft balmy air of summers last days made pleasant even the confined apartment rose turned to her husband as she heard bis step with a smile he had grown used to see in her smile something very sad but s the hjyht fell upon her face this evening there was then an expression which it pained him to see and the same light showed how terribly she was disfigured by the disease hitherto this unslghtlinesi such a dreadful calamity for rose and her bright pretty face had been used by her husband in his attempts to steel himself for his task but now be could not understand why al- hough he had never seen the disfigurement second time ready to start upon his journey plalnl though her features had was actually on the eve of departure and never appeared so seamed and unattraotive again as on the previous occasion a serious he yet felt nothing of the repulsion such a hindrance cropped up he and the m have been expected to pro- nurse had said as muoh did not 1 daoe like the look of rose and in fact had at he sat down by his wife and spoke to once made up his mind that the would die her she smiled again but this time her and so auhough he had resolved to leave i lips quivered strangely then as had been her had persuaded himself that he wss her habit of late she felt for his hand press- entirely tired of her and her associations rd it in her own clasped it to her for an yet how could he desert the girl his own instant then kissed it passionately and wife just as she was dying when sne burst into a rain of hysterical tears striving was gone there would be no one to see to the poor children and besides there came withjanawful force and suddenness upon him the memory of all the devotion she display ed during his illness while thinking thus it also swiftly flashed upon him that it might have been his illness that caused hers anoth er reason for showing a little more consider ation for her a twinge of something like remorse pain ed him when he thought of this and of the train oi selfish unfeeling plotting by which he had repaid her perhaps from that moment he was conscious of a tenderer feel ing for his wife than he had hithertc believed to bs possible- come what might he resolved he woutd not leave lon don just at once he would stay to see that his cnildren were properly disposed of ho would see the end of rose and yes he onght to do that he would be kind and con siderate to her while he was with her it is n ible we repeat that from that time bury was less entirely wrapped up in selfishness and mb thoughts held more of tenderness for his wife than they had ever held before so day after day he postponed his depart ure and day after day he was in tho sick room full of contagion to all but those who like himself were hardened by having pass ed through the ordeal he was surprised after a week or so had elapsed to fiad how attentive he had grown how it seemod no trouble to him to hold the cooling drink to poor roses feverish lips to moisten her burn ing brows or to shift her painful position and it was wonderful how the girl preferred his help to all other and how when at the worst she brightened at the sound of his voice yet more wonderful than this was the happiness it gave him to be able is ren der these services but it gave more pain than pleasure to hear her in her scarcely audible accents thinking bim and saying how she should never never be able to repay her dear hus band for all his kindness the best and most devoted husband in the world it was im- potsiblefor anyone who had nourished and matured such designs as had so lately been rodbury s to feel otherwise than rnilty a base guiltiness on hearing language which was more touching than the keenest reproaohes when she was quiet too weak to speak but not too weak to smile as she held his band while he eat by her li de in the darkec ed room he would recall the time when she was a bright healthy girl and afterwards a happy mother devoted to her children and to her husband all her faults and foibles sank to inbignlfioanoe then and he began to doubt whether among the fresh scenes he was to seek he would ever be happier ho doubted too whether he should ever find another so entirely earnest in her- love for him one who to use a homely phrase would go through fire and water for him and following up this train of thought he doubted it she would live when she found herself deserted by him the shook might kill herbut beyond that there was a ohance that so fiery a spirit as hers with all her love would lead her to put an end to her own life if nothing still worse followed sparie had gone baok to his district being unable to spare any more time so he was not to be feared to do rodbury justice hb was hardly likely to hold sparie orany one else in personal fear at last after much deliberation more painful than he had expected to find the task of deoision to prove ho resolved to wait a day or two longer so as to see her through the crisis and then he would leave her ho was angry with himself for show ing such hesitation which indeed surpris ed as well as angered him he did not dream that it was one of the best symptoms his earless selfish nature had ever shown nor did he properly estimate the pain whiob the prospeot of parting with his wife and children gavo him the propossd time elapsed his wife seemed duly passing through the necessary stages to convalescence she certainly was growing stronger her eyes it was true were oovered by a bandage but this rid bury knew or thought he knew was a very common incident in this terrible disease thus the days went on until once again for the third time tho eve of his departure had come and i wonder he muttered as after a short saunter in the fresh open air he came in sight of his house what will happen to upset my plans tonight there has been the worst of luok about them at present he was conscious while persuading bim self that he was anxious for a final success that his heart was nob so muoh in thesoheme as it had been and that its completion would cause in him but a moderate ex ultation he went into his wifes room it was now the early twllirht of an- august evening everything even in that crowded neighbour hood happened as he remembered manv and many a day afterwards to be hushed no vehicles wers passing the vendors of street goods had not come out for tho night while those who piled during the day had ceased their calling even the children on the street were quiet how well rodbury through her wild sobbing to say something which he could not render intelligible rodbury threw his arm around her and drawing her head down upon his shouher spoke soothingly to her and asked with a solicitude he had no need to feign the cause of this outburst rallying her too on the folly of thus giving way now that she was getting well so fast and had passed all the dangers of her fearful illness oh frank my own my dear husband at last exobdmed the girl do not spsak like that or you will kill mel i have never been fit to be your wife i know and always have known it you have borne with me because you were kind and i had perhaps some common pret- tiness no 1 do not interrupt me she said ab rodbury began to speak all that is true but do not argue upon it for you do not know what is coming my face even such as it was is ntterly disfigured i oan feel it is my mere touch tells me how i must look i shall only know it thus for i am now less fit than ever to be your wife i am blind frank completely and hopelessly blind 1 i shall never see the light of day again and worse than that far far worse 1 i shall never more look on the kind face of my dear husband or see my darling children ah you draw from me 1 i knew you would why should a sightless disfigur ed draw from you rose i shrink from my dearest wife exclaimed rodbury he had involuntarily pushed back his chair at the first shook but now he clasped the girl in his arms and spoke with tn earnestness which had the ring of truth in it i will hope for better than you tell me with time poor roses teirs burst into a fresh flood at this and she gasped no no i never dr berge told me so today theni will always stay with you rose t oried her husband his words had a deeper meaning than was dreamt of by their hear er and yon shall not miss oven your ej es while using mine i have news also but 1 will say only this at present we shall always be above any need for toil abovo all fear of want you shall have no cafe for our living or the comfort and wellbeing of our child ren and i need never again go out with john my circumstances are greatly changed now dry up your tears and tell mo where you would like to live with the children und what they shall have to please them he said a great deal more certainly in a strain which he had not intended to fall into when he entered the house but without thoroughly knowing it frank rodbury so to call him still had been undereoing an improving discipline for soma time he had until that hour persuaded himself that he was determined to carry out his plans of em ancipation as ever that is he thought he was as selfish as ever but bis churlishness had been greatly undermined and he was an altered man now the terrible announce ment made by his wife tho eight of her seam ed and pitted face which the poor girl knew was disfigured but which she would never see the picture which arose constantly in his mind of the ohildren his children sooth ing and clinging to their blind unsightly and deserted mother was too much for him he was slnoere in what he said and despite the shocking circumstances whioh surround ed them he passed an hour or two by his wlfos side more happily than he had passed any interval for months after a day or two all fear of contagion being gone rose was moved to a healthy northern suburb of lou don and her ohildren were brought to see her these were in robust health tho girl eould toddle about freely and talk with a very pretty tongue while a finer little fellow than the boy never greeted a fathers eyes rodbury groaned whon he r flsoted that the poor mother would never again look upon their blooming features or see their pretty curls and then with a still keener sang le thought what eould 1 have been reaming ot to plan the leaving subh beauti ful little creatures as these children that many a lord would give half his lands to own this was a great change from i his previous lines of rtfleotion but rodbury was not conscious of an inconsistency he only knew that his heart now seemed bonnd to his wife and ohildren and felt that he could not be happy apart from them it need merely be said hero that the sub sequent report of tho dector nd the condi tion of the patient heraolf only too strongly confirmed the inful announcement rose had made she was blind ihopelt asly and wliomyblin3 yet as it so cvn happens with usin our worst rfllecions thtro was even with this bouj alleviating power for in the increased attention other husband the softened tone and tenderness which she so soon recognised roso had an under current of happiness despite of her blind ness and the sad smile whioh was once familiar to her lips was changed for a bright er if still a subdued one as soon as it was safe to do so j rodbury went to his friend aahwell and consulted as to the best plan to be pursued under bis altered views these views considerably as tonlshed mr ash well who wss greatly af fectedby poor roses story and honestly reproached himself for having given council to her husband which involved so ranch pain to her be had no doubt now as to the council be should give and this exactly chiming with bis friends own views it was immediately adopted a great deal might be said about the im portant change which took place but as the result must be plainly foreseen it will not be worth while to postpone the olote of our story rodbury he never changed his assumed name decided upon going to the far west to manitoba indeed and reveal ing to some extent his altered position he asked mr sparie to go with him seeing many ways in which the sound practical sense and business habits of bis brother-in- law would be valuable but sparlee reply was a decided negative and as his last utterance in onr chronicle shall be record ed no mr rabury be said i am much obliged to you but it wont do i am not half so surprised about your money as you may expect for 1 have always seen you was of a different stamp from ourselves and if i could have stopped her rose should not have married you thats straight ioanseewhy you are taking her and the young ones to america yon will not meet any of your friends in manitoba and i dessay you will manage very well there and bring up the girl and boy like a lady and gentleman but you could not make a geathmui of me and after a time i should be in the way and be always reminding you if it was only by my being there of these times we should quar rel and rose would be miserable no we are beat apart and we both feel it in his rfcsrt rodbury was probably pleased at this decision within a fortnight from this interview he sailed for montreal robs and thi children travelling in such state with four servants or nurses these not so much for the journey as for help in their new life as almost frightened her this of course she soon got over and her unfortunate blindness shielded her in nor intercourse with the other passengers who might otherwise have marvelled at the man ners of their fellow- voyager manitoba was duly reached and a farm which they soon learned to call a ranche eurchased if sparles prediction about ringing up the children as ladies andgentle- men was not literally fulfilled yet all five of which number his family eventually con sisted were brought up by rodbury in a befitting manner and he was as happy as a man can well be we olose this history by telling how a friend of mr aahwell hiving been on a sporting tour west called upon that gentle man on his return and in the course of his narrative said while in manitoba whom do you suppose i came across why cy launceston 1 you remember him a fellow down in leicestershire whom every body expeoted would drop into penal servi tude some day even if he escaped the gallows well there he is quite an influen tial settler and a most successful one he has a great estate and calls himself rodbury i understand his name is now legally this anyhow there he uvea with his wif o poor creature she is blind from the smallpox i believe and certainly i never saw any one more marked with ic however in spite of this she is a bright cheerful little woman and seems to worship the very ground her husband walks on at least so i heard from the neighbours he has five of the finest ohildien i ever saw three sons and two daughters you should see them ride their ponies i it took away my breath and i am a pretty fair band across country i flatter myself to see some of the ground they went over 1 there ho is as i tell you a regular canadian citizsn and some day for all i know he will be in parliament so high does his oharacter stand only think cyrus liunoeston of all persons in the world being presented as an embodiment of the moral social and in fact general virtues 1 it was strange no doubt to one who like the speaker knew some of the antece dents of the person in question but it is never too late to mend thbknd the hobeok of 8latjbb7- is the traffic on the increase it is enough our hearts are sick with slaughter let the witnesses stand down is the smoke of this torment to go np for ever and ever remember that these deeds of blood and darkness are no isolated facts no umporary misfortunes no mere passing accidents of the savage arate they are samples of a sustained accepted and carefully organized system of cbueltv akd mdbdek which pervades and penetrates every corner of this continent da not let it be supposed that this horror is over that this say of tribulation is at an end this horror and this day are now it is not even abating slavery s on the increase time civilizv tion christianity are not reall touching it no fact in relation to the slavetrade is more appalling than this the f aot of this increase for a time denied then doubted has at last been reluctantly admitted even by the government of england in a gov ernment binebook issued only the other day her majestys consul for the somali coast reports that the slavetrade hss been very active of late on the 16h of september 1888 captain glssing captur ed three dhows and brought two hundred and four slaves to aden the consul at zirzibar writes september1888 to the marquis of salisbury there is a marked increase in slavotrsffij carried on under the protec tion of the french flag the consul further states that dhows carrying french colors were constantly and regularly leaving for the comoro islands mayotta and madagas car loaded with slaves in june 1ss8 brigadier general hogfr dating from the aden residency wrote to the bombay government i have the honor to bring to the notice of government that i have from time to time received reports of the activity of the slave trade from the neigh borhood of the gulf of tajourra and i deem it my duty to inform government of this fact with a view to such action being taken as may be deemed advisable sorlbners the woman who scabs a woman who scrubs over lathery tubs tho not of a bibulous mind has no cause to faint if folks make complaint of her having three sheets in the wind yonktrs gfzstte the finis of this years light wools and homespuns is softer and finer than ever consumption surely cored to the editor please inform your readers that i have a positive remedy for the above named disease by its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured i sb- ol be glad to send two bottles of my rtmev free to any of your readers who have con sumption if they will send me their express and p o address respy ta slocum mc 164 west adelaide st toronto ap 453 talking goods up in a clever forcible way jokelets lights secondhand reflected lights second hand witti oisrna nb the fruits of some joke- hatch ere turn out to be veritable chestnuts a genuine lusns naturie a spelling- bee the first female on record eve oh no gone sis jonny sis a canard we opine is so called because it oanard iy bo believed the thing to bo put down with a stern hand the rudder of course a settler for tight laolng no proper young lady would care to be seen in a coarse set corseti trumps for unemployed labourers spades when may a houso be said to bs out of the i perpendicular when it has got a stoop to it ns b- this is a stup end- houre joke not to be guessed by every stupid fellow i pbof leweiun m a a fond patewell i they had come out into the hall late sun day evening after he had made a more than usually protracted call 1 0 tho light was dim and romantio j in tho riohly furnished entryway the maiden whom he loved as ho loved his life looked doubly fascinating and young loverly found it exceedingly difficult to drag himself away goodby he said at length 11 goodby she repeated though she had remarked the same thing bnt soven times before ivyy goodby he said again with great hesitation goodby she whispered softly i may i have one fi jal kiss he pleaded he might and aid but still he lingered why he queried with sudden insplr tion is our fiaal kiss liko a duodecimo i give its up the maiden said after a moment of deep and hopeless cogitation i becauao he answered triumphantly it means 12 mo 1 and on that basis it was interpreted never let a customer go away without making a purchase said mr threads to a newly j engaged clerk talk the goods up in a olever forcible way and youll be certain to make a sale every time all right replied fearless gall the new clerk who bad been an auctioneer for a year out west i think i know just wbat you mean sir an i you can rely upon me i know the trioks of the trade ten minutes later he was going on in this fashion to mrs marshall nealo one of the wealthiest and 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