Show a pride and punishment by MARY M PENNELL NEL ji I 1 yn A ay iy cop right 1911 1010 by W G chapman madeleine driscoll had returned to the old manor house in clayton claylon after an abdene of 15 years claton clarion had ceased to think of tit the Dri they had been equips in the old days but their importance had faded as aa clayton become a manu fac fracturing turing town and madeleine B s father had lost lila ills money to in wild speculation leaving an ishad wife ife and striving to keep up the old alch had long hgo ago departed finally nally after her mothers mother a death tile lie jari arl held had gone away silo she had lobed up tile the house and it had stood blood untenanted ajon tile the hill people leopie cease to speak of lier her she was a al most forgotten motten to when she bhe returned tier her return awakened of her ufa life in the place gossips roe tiled that she alio had been engaged to be mar lied once ifer her fiance was tile the young clergyman upton vare iio I 1 nf nd not appeared appear cd nt at the church door tit hi it t much was ile he li it id di vart d within LL a week meek aud claton hud hall not him agnan agnin life lilt had continued just as aa smoothly in clay ton for it wai na to a haven of peace that tho woman of thirty live returned the lit alo church waa us still standing mellowed by tim alnio the creep creepers cirs now extending or the entire front tile the village avid grown factories had sprung up but much was uan the sailie only those who had known madeleine when she was a oung woman oman had all died or departed she threw herself into church work or k sho sh sewed she ebo tauf taut clit lit tho adored tier her she bhe could not look upon mile boys and girls with all the promise of life befaro them without thinking of 0 her own wasted life I 1 tho ho annual continuation confirmation clans was mas w biting fur foi the arrival of the rho bishop or of au haskett was mas still it was wa a talo tale of pride and punishment it ft soung man ho be aris a i forcible or cr and hall had been selected on tile the death I 1 ot of tits hla on account of hla his and faith A bachelor bh olor he hall given rall nil lile etione to the poor ile ho was as a leaded of till thu ne school which was bellovin bel lovid lovd to jonir tho mort powerful op oil position to nil all tho doctrines of mate il allBin rampant throughout the land all clayton awaited malted ti hla his first visit on tile th evening of his fits arrival made delao was in the church silo she as alone stio sho had been decorating the at al tar and putting tile the last garlanda gar landi of green about the pillars then tier her work done one the in einor of tho the past came tru rushing shing over tier her just so BO had she bhe worked in a the das w hea upton and she ebe were engaged to be ni they had bad met duio lure ond and her dierno tries tho floodgates flood gatea gates of her sor row 0 she kneeled and wept before thu tho a altar 1 t ar sho did not hear the door open nor was tahe ho bhare aware that silo bhe was riot not alone until lit I 1 abbo lie started up lip to see tho standing at tier her sido aids through ees blinded with teals she discerned the kindl man who looked inquiringly at her bor you are in trouble I 1 naked asked the bishop she lidded desolately she could not speak she ahe burled buried her head in her arms arid and sobbed bobbed then suddenly she found hersell herself poured out her story it was a tale of f pride and punishment but the pun 0 ashment had boon been out of proportion to the sin bin risteen bears before almost to a daa da she was to have married upton vane the mar mas only 1 I i hours away upton was as in her rioth noth ere home when a messenger came to tile the door an old colored woman who be lived eight miles away aay was dlug diug she had something to confess before she died site she wanted a mi minister alster any minister the message had come to upton be cause the methodist mir marlater later was out but you cant go dearl t exclaimed the sirl girl mr air barrett will be back in a few minutes and he to Is istir min later inter at least all the colored people about hu ha go to his church 1 I 1 II 11 I have to go madelcine the nun min liter leter answered anaw alred the call has bus ome to me well I 1 think it outrageous an sw jweied ei ed tile girl hotly REin remember ember if you keep roe me waiting tomorrow ili I 1 II 11 riot not marry aou ou why iny dear bo be back by mid night upton answered un she bile suffered him to kiss her but her manner was aa distinctly as he be took his bis dej departure arture and when lie ho cached the miserable shark he found cause for further dela the old omans oman 9 son was expected hourly from tho south lie he had corn com emitted a dime crime lie he had confessed to his fits mother and when lie arrived she wished him to unburden den himself of tits his scerrel and suffer buffer the penalty it would mean a dozen years in the pent tent lary she could not die leaving him with tits hla crime 0 the minister waited hours crept by it was nas morning before tho the son BOH appended appon appen red lie ile wai wag just in time to say good by to his mother to listen to her hei pica an aal I 1 to make his confession the died and the minister took the man to the polier station dy by the time these formalities were end ed it was ten 0 clock and he had halt an hour to go home and dress for the wedding there were mero no telephones in those days at a furious pace he drove hla his horse up the hill to encounter the bride a carriage going to the church madeleine saw raw him ile he pulled up and tried to speak to tier her take us home cried the birl to the coachman those were the last words of hers that upton heard arrich at the manor she shut herself up tor for days in vain upton tried to see ece her site she would not receive him silo she returned ills hla letters A week meek later the young man loft left claiton claaton and his successor was wan installed A to fe v weeks m beeks after that mrs driscoll died and madeleine soon closed the house and disappeared she hid emd lit in the world she had bad tasted the sweets and bit terriss aa of life and now at thirty five flye she had returned to her native town and those memories which site she site she had forgotten tamo cattle back to tier her with mth poignant intensity that was as the story sho she tod the bishop what can I 1 doa I 1 have been punished heaven knows I 1 hive suffered I 1 have ruined two atnes you have never seen or heird beird of this ON U ul ton itne ine since thin T the bish op askea giaela no I 1 dont don t know hire hi re he wont went how flow could I 1 sek ack him out after that hut ou oil knew at tile the time thile tile the cruise of hlf hip late return r turna 1 not for weeks answered made alade leine aud and then m hat was i as tile the use of being sorry io do you still loo ione tills this man in quiren the gravely she flung out tier her arms I 1 have done with mth lovo lo 10 a bho bhe an seid I 1 only want to the part that I 1 hao lia 0 out of his life I 1 want w alit to I 1 no now that he is happy and has hag forgot ten tile me lie he la Is happy answered the bish op hut but lie ho has not forgotten ou something in his oleo olce mado made the lie girl start and look at him intently site she had not seen his fits face for tier her tears now she found herself looking into tile enes ees of upton vane |