Show E three candles 7 aln ahree r deij 11 MILDRED C ay cop comar com right lr 1916 by W a ch a the t three hit SS non 01 ihen P pe by do you Y 1 tate I mra hire prescott bliz liz altho w ones f 11 b antul at tul borrow jugh shadowed he far ad at ayes looked dim and ss fin lat TK Os t reproachfully the bering clerk in the little atla confect und and toy A t 1 aou 1 f 11 pay far and t helo added sn baw aget my pay saturday Is abellia oh Is of that declared the M aw ad the counts indeed 1 t 1 got it is because my heart I 1 roii of ter ad sympathy for you my dear judy t go 0 I 1 r ado 1 abat 1901 its led the lady in mourning in bad but even too it t Is the little me a third 11 birthday b mhd anniversary nr iCV she was the only ray of bright that ever carne SM to my life with 11 the agony ad gr ef se her memory mel llory 18 1 sacredly sweet to me wit without hout another aler word the girl placed the tb e three t h r ree tiny candles in sheps the package ro conta at a I 1 neng R small frosted coke cake se the lady led had ordered but her tears tear were fallo 6 and B nd she bho vainly tried to still tse a sub bless bles on dear spoke now new mrs P prescott Pr rea eacott rott gently ix do not net think me morbid it would be cruel lor far ane in to torget forget little arline th the lady of borrowa murmured the girl pathetically as her h or customer cost r departed fontenot poor soul truly her cup I 1 la full to oler overflowing flowing A tragedy sudden terrible suit and dev rug f 6 wont you try to forgot forget witting wit ting had bad come into let the life ot of mary prescott the little town kne knew only of a f its rare outlines outline mr and mrs mra prescott had r come to h with a I 1 little child a year old th they rented a email I 1 cottage cott age and lived very much to themselves their lit ill seemed a strange one the husband would old go away mysteriously and be absent tor for as long as a month at a time DUT dur ing such buch periods mother and child she t t themselves up the lonely home seeing as few people be as we waa P possible if neighbors never intruded but they h key could not got fail to notice that the led lad I 1 face grew paler and thinner shwas each day and her eya BY had bad a constant c tt t t euprea pro P bion i of fan tear r suspense von or grief I 1 they h ca could not of determine do armi which sentiment most at pral prevailed ailed then the truth came out discovered by a resident of the little town visit ing the city james P Pr eacott it we was a gambler earn b let he had used use d up all bla own w money and that of bial 1 1 w wife at the card table for a month morly scowling speaking to no ona w tn I 1 the in town he be had bad been seen as about the house bouse then one evening the the village was startled by a new dc disclosure act r the father with little A arlane 1 me by his hia side ds had been bc seen to BO 9 0 8 aboard chur ard the puritan A an hour later tar r river er steamer in mrs rs prescott caad cm c m rushing as nit to the wharf to make inquiries I 1 irl she was w frantic halt beside it herself h lar off ta T 0 was we ob b hours he later this circumstance schied cal ad by the message a flashed h ec from fifty miles e do down a tr the river iv that point a ial had blown puritan the boiler better of tin the and of the one a hun hen in midstream up fb aboard rd I 1 less than dred dd passengers fill rescued about had been twenty recovered 1 in the ht at of 1 bodies were mere j those not found the it names name of f jamas wera listed t d prescott me and ad arline in supposed d that in the village it was hla lit hild child on taking failing prescott Presco tl had hell casual down the river tr trip 1 P alas ala a wary mary frescott re c it alone bereaved poor that led knew tho the agitating tle incidents her bar up to the tragedy t that at a I 1 shadowed already B J dy dreary arc life ii if freal she had never I 1 loved it james if ft scon acme adverse seemed as cott it it mockery of fato 1 11 bad it a d conspired 0 to accept his at attentions t an if back make line her bar of leclaire alre ju just t in her home village diala the th appe appeared r upon up prescott detore before d I 1 had bad rece received 11 a drop proposal mary acom estimator tiam from a 4 most net ot at marriage mamago sh paul barry named it young man b heart at the time than her r bad not later 0 tt known when the full measure a ur ad ol 01 but a overwhelmed r h 1 kr diseri be her 1 mool her hem hesitation let S h realized that her r she him m may bal but a be line drives asich cu bad lifetime mistake mary ry smothered mothered bar disappointment however g giving tier let full love to little araw and ad by pa 1 fil times and loyalty sula to m win isome measure of kindness from her husband in this she signally failed ad prescott pream pretending ing atif amyy be beaff a man of means had influenced n e 4 mary M a father r to favor the marriage just at after the tha wedding her he father at her died hla his estate was waa quite quit small and ad was as divided between hit his daughter I 1 if and a crippled stepbrother step 7 ther 8 soon pr off had bad squandered 0 d ill hii wife a portion then he tried to in duce does her to contest the loss legacy to her father stepbrother or induce the let lat tor ter to lend her some borne of his hia small email epam a M mary r y let refused it it we wa then the that ir prescott e 0 ll 11 had bad threatened to break her hep spirit if ff she ahe dl did it no not meet at his bia falls it vas as t then hen that he ha arted out with ch arita to hide bid the child III way away from her other mother until mary relented then thele overcome with this tearful fearful climax iliam of to mrs M prescott had bad resigned re hawd herself to tar her feta fate as a a lonell brokenhearted being without a friend in the world f id so he bhe thought t and and settled fettled down to work tor for R so dotres in the turn town to in her bar est estimate at a of fri friendlessness however howat bhe I 1 bad tot not counted on tha lb amill ing fidelity of a noble man paul perry barry had tot not forgotten her news had bad ce come a to his ears ear an intel lion of the of pro prea cott it if ho had secretly visited and in and ad hod had found himself powerless to better bolt I 1 things ling or come be came tween owr husband bud and wife to he came apt who when he be learned fear no it of the up josd aad death of father and ad child pet then hl an he made a strange discovery dis cry this was the elat t ement at from a friend that he be had bad been prescott Prep cott 1 in a dla tent tant city two weeks week after the finking king of the steamer barry started a now new investigation cut gulf whatever he be foulard it resulted in his visiting waltham up upon that same on evening g when h n mrs P frescott had bad s be bought 1111 th the tiny w re candles amill to celebrate the third aralar aral anniversary lr ry of the birthday Y of little arline under the cover of darkness he her bov red ered beat about the tha boarding house hall where mrs mra prescott P off occupied coupled a room he 1 located the apartment from the out of side ide at a table he be mada ad out at mrs prescott led at a table upon alln wh which on was a eake cake with three lighted cand candles I 1 n it A great wave of pit pity and love swept ilal 1 I as be comprehended the re beaning 1 I of I 1 the tey lonely scene no then the burr barry an entered irad the house he consult ed the ina landlady she was to manage to 0 get mrs mra prescott Pre ecott out at of her room to or a brief spell while he be pd aped to the village hotel let to return and smuggle tho into the room a little I 1 child barry ill seated toll her he at the I 1 table his went down stairs and gave an agreed agre edon on signal to the landlady A minute later mrs lure prescott Pr eacott r re turned it up upstairs to aft confront her lost child arline it was a feverish ab unreal hour for ian raea flitner tb the a poor in mother 0 barry it did not of in I 1 trude rude until 11 the first wild joy of find tnt ing the dead alive had bad somewhat sub b aided it was waa then that be told her bar of the escape from the wreck ot of fa ther and child of his discovery of d the former with arline in a wretched hovel in a distant city prescott Pr eacott had tai serious injuries in the ex of the steamer had died and barry bad brought arline arlin home true friend he had been ban in her heart of bears fervently mary P pre re cott realized this fully true lover everi ever she knew this too 00 before many weeks had bad passed bv iv and little arline and happy bapp y mary ider after the storm found peace and jn oal I protector protect |