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Kate sighed wearily as her father left the room. If she could only be as
well assured as her strong words implied! Ah! if she could fetch back
her lover by getting at the truth, how willingly she would fly to
Rosedale and learn all! But she dared not question, lest questioning
should confirm, where she now at least ha... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Grief is a logician of very direct methods. Its clarifying processes
work like light in darkness. Kate saw the past in her father's conduct
with terrifying vividness. She realized that it was her father's harsh
purpose that had arrayed Acredale against him. It was his pride and
arrogant obstinacy that had brought abou... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Elisha Boone sat quite still. He had listened at first with a flush of
anger, which deepened as the girl pleaded, until it died away and left
his face very pale. He pushed himself away from the clinging figure, as
if the better to see her face. Then his head drooped. He sighed heavily,
rose and without a word left the... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Ah, Miss Merry, I'm so glad to see you! I have been meaning to call on
you ever since I heard of your return, but, what with sorrow and
illness, I have put it off, and now I want you to take me home with you.
Will you not?"
The pleading tone, the caressing clasp of the hand, the sadly changed
face, the somber black w... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
She squeezed the astonished Merry's hand, convulsively, and shot off,
leaving the bewildered lady quite speechless, so speechless that, when
she reached the stately presence of Aunt Pliny, she forgot the
commissions she had been sent to execute, and was at once reviled by the
parrot as "a no-account dawdler."
Meanwhil... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Kate was sobbing when the story ended. She flung her arms about
Olympia's neck, and for a time the two sat silent, tearful.
"Oh, why didn't he tell me this at the time? It was not Jack's bullet
that entered poor Wesley's body. Jack was at his right, at the side of
the bed. Wesley's wound was on the left side, and the ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"I know the influences, I think, and I can discover the agencies. Take
comfort. I believe Jack is alive. I promise you that I shall never rest
until he is found, alive or dead."
"O Kate, what an impulsive ally we have gained! I wish Jack could have
heard that speech; it would have put power in his arm, as poor Barney
... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Olympia said this with composure and a certain confidence in herself
that struck Kate with admiration. She felt ashamed of herself. Here was
Olympia, unconscious of Jack's real peril if living, the menace to his
reputation if dead, planning as composedly as if it were an every-day
thing to have a brother lost in the a... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"It is more than likely that these names are wrong. This happens
constantly. The operators are raw and some of them can barely read. The
names are given hurriedly, and if not written plainly they make wretched
work of them. The newspapers make many a fool famous, while neglecting
many a hero who deserves fame, simply ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Well, it will cost the man his life. I'll stake my diploma on that.
Why, the journey to Warchester alone is enough to down the most vigorous
convalescent."
Kate trembled. What did this mean? What was she hearing?
Boone--Warchester? Whom had her father been taking from the
hospital--Jack? Her heart gave a wild leap. Y... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Who--who--did--who asked for his removal?"
"A Mr. Boone, also of Warchester."
"Thank you--I am too late--I wanted to--to ask this Mr. Jones some
questions concerning a dear friend in his regiment. But I can write, if
you will kindly give me the address."
"I am very sorry--beyond Warchester we have no record here of h... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
When she reached home, fortune had intervened to save her conscience
from the falsehoods she feared she would have to employ. The landlady
met her in the hallway with a white face.
"O Miss Boone, Mrs. Sprague is taken very bad. The doctor's with her
now. I think it is typhoid fever."
Up-stairs misfortune gave her a fu... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Olympia, who had been so strong, cheery, and masterful when it had been
a question of reassuring her mother, was now the stricken spirit. She
looked at Kate through swimming eyes, and her voice was lost in sobs as
she tried to speak. The girls held each other in a tearful silence,
neither able to say what was in the m... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"DEAREST PAPA: I am come all the way from Washington, leaving poor Mrs.
Sprague very low with fever, and her daughter tormented and ill with
anxiety. I feel, I know, that you can relieve the distress of this
miserable mother and devoted sister. I must see you. I felt sure of
seeing you in Washington, and you can imagi... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
That was all. More than evasive. Subtly calculated to make her believe
that he had dismissed all thought of Jack and was immersed in his own
affairs. She sat staring and helpless, a cold horror creeping into her
heart and a nameless terror taking outline in her senses. Hideous
alternative. To be coherent she must susp... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Yes, I should like very much to know. I am deeply interested in him,
Did you have charge of him?"
"I can't say I did. I was sent from Washington in the same train, but
the old chap that got Jones removed did all the nussing. I only got a
sight of him as he was lifted into the carriage."
"Should you know him again if ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Kate looked into the innocent blue eyes as the young fellow scratched
his tow head, wondering whether he was as simple-minded as he seemed. He
stood the scrutiny with blushing restiveness, in which there was nothing
of the malign, and she resolved that he was to be trusted.
"Very well," she said, indifferently, "that ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Did you see the patient?"
"No, indeed. You didn't tell me to, and I had nothing, to see him for.
Ef you had told me that you wanted I should see him, I'd have seen him
as easy as greased lightning."
"Thank you. I am relieved of a great burden through your kindness. You
must permit me to give you something to show my ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"What's wanted, Sarah?"
"A young lady to see Mr. Jones, sir," and, stepping slightly aside for
Kate to enter, the father recognized the visitor.
"You here, Kate? What does this mean?"
With a great throb of joy she flung herself into his arms; too happy,
too relieved to take into consideration the defeat of her purpose... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
In the overwhelming revulsion of feeling brought about by the actual
sight of Jones, Kate stood, interdicted, in the corridor, uncertain what
to do. She heard the man's words and shuddered at the bantering levity
with which he spoke of his own death. Who could it be? It was not Jack,
as she had feared and hoped. But h... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Nothing but the sense of having giving hostages to good behavior rather
than honor upheld Kate in the line she had marked out for herself. She
was not, in the modern sense of the word, a strong-minded young woman,
this sorely beset champion of the overborne. She hadn't even the
perversity of the sex in love. Chivalrou... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
She knew her father too well to suppose that he would flinch from any
measure he had proposed to himself. She knew that she need not count any
further upon her accustomed powers of persuasion. His own words were
final on that score. If she could only learn his intentions! If she
could be sure that he was ulteriorly sh... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"DEAR SIR: A mother and sister who have exhausted all
official sources in vain to get trace of a lost son and brother,
John Sprague of the Caribees, have reason to believe that
you can give them a clew to his whereabouts. Will you
therefore kindly confide in the bearer of this letter, giving
hi... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
When she reached home she found her father in the library. He looked at
her inquiringly as she came over and kissed him.
"I have been in town all day, and am run out."
"Still plotting?"
"Yes, still plotting."
"You're wasting your time, my dear. You'll know all you care to soon
enough, if you'll just keep quiet."
"Yes;... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Suppose you read me something? You haven't read in an age."
"What shall it be?"
"Oh, something from Dickens--anything you like."
"Very well, I shall show you a counterfeit presentment of yourself,"
and, with an arch-smile, she began to read from The Chimes.
He listened soberly until the last page was turned, and then... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Then we will go at once. Will you call a carriage?"
While he was gone, Kate read the note again. She was more puzzled than
ever. The man wrote as if he had no idea that Jack was not easily
traceable, yet all the Spragues' money and influence had been spent in
vain. He expected her. Where could her father be? He wrote... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"When was that?"
"Late in November."
"Yes, I was one of them. I escaped from Richmond. Jack and young Perley
got me out of the tobacco warehouse. We reached the Warrick after a hard
week of marching and hiding, and the boys were alive and well when we
reached the Union outpost. I was last to cross the bridge, and as I... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
He spoke with a flush deepening on his face, and arose with something
like vigor.
"Ample means--you shall have any sum you need," Kate said, handing him a
well-filled purse.
"Good--I have one or two articles in my room. I will fetch them and
follow you to the carriage."
Ten minutes later the carriage was whirling over... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Why, I jast saw him at the desk, paying his bill. He is probably there
still. Wait here until I see."
But Kate, fearing that he might be gone before she could reach him,
followed the boy. There was no sign of her father at the desk, and,
turning hastily out of the main corridor, filled with officers and the
clank of ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
But here Kale broke down. She had spoken with a passionate, resentful
vehemence, her mind all the time seething with the fear and shame of her
father's responsibility for this hideous attack upon the absent. She
stretched out her hand exhaustedly for support. A young officer near her
pushed up a chair and helped her i... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"But he has never heard of the charges," Kate cried, indignantly. "He
has not been heard of since he escaped from Richmond."
"As we understand it, he reached the Union lines merely to ambuscade our
outposts, and then returned to Richmond."
"His sister left Richmond ten days after his flight, and he had then
passed int... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Well, we won't talk of it. I suppose you are with the Spragues?"
"Yes; I shall remain with them until this is ended."
"What if I should tell you to come home with me?"
"I should, of course, obey you if you commanded me. But before doing so
I should have to put my statement in legal shape--that is, swear to it,
and gi... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE LOST CARIBEES.
Meanwhile war, in one of its grim humors, had prepared a comedy when the
stage was set in tragic trappings. In the withdrawal of Johnston's army
from Manassas--signalized in history as the Quaker campaign, because our
army found wooden guns in the deserted works--that ardent young H... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Jack's influence, he counted, would soon relieve him from the hardships
of confinement, and then he should see Olympia--that, at least, was
recompense for his misfortune. His mother and Rosa would immediately
learn of his capture, and he might count upon hearing from them, as very
generous latitude was allowed in such... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Major Atterbury? Oh, yes; he was removed to division D. You will find
him in a separate tent. He has a woman nurse. I will send an orderly
with you."
Rosa did not recognize the civilian at first, but as he turned to
accompany the soldier she remembered where she had seen him before. He
was the prisoner Jack had spoke... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Poor Rosa! She had thought her grief and terror too much to endure
before. Now how trivial Vincent's fever in comparison with this
appalling disappearance of Dick and Jack! She walked on over the sparse
herbage, over her shoes in the soft sand, when Linda came running from
the tent in joyous excitement.
"De good Lord,... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"O Vincent, that was what I was coming to! Jack has never been seen or
heard from since he escaped from your troops near the Warrick. I did not
know you had written. I got a letter from Rosa yesterday morning and
went at once to the War Department, where we have a good friend--"
"I can't understand it. All these thing... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"I don't know. Why should you go back? The South is sure to be beaten.
We are conquering territory every day, from the armies at Donelson to
the forts at New Orleans. We shall beat you in Virginia so soon as
General McClellan gives the word."
"Even if that were the case, my duty and my honor would point to but one
cou... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Once within the long marqueé, however, Rosa was relieved to find that
the casual spectacle was not different from that of the other seriously
sick-wards. A melancholy silence seemed to signalize the despair of the
twoscore patients, each occupying a cot screened from the rest by thin
canvas curtains. Double lines of s... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Who is in the third cot from here?"
"Let me see. Oh, yes, number seven; that's a man named Paling."
"And the next?"
"Number eight; that's a man named Jake, or Jakes, I'm blessed if I am
certain. They've been out of their head since they come. They're the two
I spoke of who ain't no more small-pox than I have."
"May I... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"They are in the small-pox ward, but they haven't the disease. Ah! they
are there, they are there. Come at once and take them away. Ah! take
them away this minute."
"By 'they' do you mean Perley and Sprague?" Jones asked, breathlessly.
"Yes, ah, yes. Thank God! thank God! Ah! I could say prayers from now
until my dyin... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
During all this, Rosa was divided in her mind. She resented the
assiduity of Jones in the recovery of Dick. That reticent person had
installed himself in Dick's tent and never quitted the lad, day or
night, unless to relinquish him to Rosa's arbitrary hand. When, one day,
Pliny and Merry Perley entered the tent, Jones... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"I have no orders to tell you. My orders are to deliver you at the
provost prison. You will hear the charges there."
"But I am still under the doctor's charge. I am on the hospital list."
"I don't know what condition you are in. My orders are to arrest you,
and you know I have no option. All can be remedied at the
pro... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Cheer up, Sprague; it's all a mistake." It was the voice of the lawyer.
At this Jack started, his eyes gleaming wildly. "Ah, I thought so. I
knew I could never have been disgraced like this in earnest. They have
discovered the wrong done me?"
"No, no; not exactly that, Jack, but we shall show them the mistake, I
make... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"There is nothing to forgive. It may be a matter of regret that you are
a Boone in blood rather than an Ovid, and that you imitate the Boones in
obstinacy. But justice has been done, and there's no need to quarrel
about strangers."
She didn't understand in the least what he meant about justice being
done. Remembering ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Since it concerns you, my child, suppose you go over and ask Miss
Sprague. How should I know the affairs of such superior people?"
"Could nothing soften you?--humanize you, I was going to say. Could
nothing satisfy you but the death of this injured family?--for this blow
will kill them. Kill them? Why should they car... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Read that? What does it mean?"
Boone's eyes rested a moment on the paragraphs pointed out. Then,
throwing the paper aside, he asked, coldly:
"Why should you ask me what it means? If you are interested in the
affair, you might find out by writing to the court."
At this, Jones, looking around the room, marked the two d... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"I was further commissioned to get evidence against John Sprague, fixing
upon him the crime of betraying his colors and aiding the Confederacy.
In the attempt to rescue Captain Boone at Bosedale circumstances pointed
to the guilt of young Sprague, but that was all dissipated a few weeks
after, when, at the peril of hi... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Ah, Kate! Kate! what is it? Have you learned the dreadful news? I am
going to take the train back this evening."
"I, too, will go with you. Stay with me; don't leave me!"
She stopped, put out her hand, as if to make sure of Olympia, then broke
into low but convulsive sobs. Her father, with the doctor, entered the
roo... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
"Mr. Boone, your daughter has been exposed to a great danger. We may be
able to save her, but it will require great patience."
"Danger, doctor! What do you mean?"
"Your daughter has caught the most hideous of all diseases--small-pox!"
Elisha Boone started to his feet. "Great God! where could she catch
small-pox?"
"She... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
We have looked on while most of the people in this history worked
through night to light in the moral perplexities besetting them. We have
seen warriors in love and danger gallantly extricating themselves and
plucking the bloom of safety from the dragon path of danger. We have
seen a moral combat in the minds of most ... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
Elisha Boone slept in his own home that night, and, for the first time
in forty years, he fell upon his knees--upon his knees! Indeed, the
doctor found him so at midnight, when he came with a request from his
daughter to come to her room. The doctor, with a word of warning against
agitating the sufferer, wisely retire... | The Iron Game: A Tale of the War | Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis) | 1850 | 1928 | ['en'] | 23 | {'United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction'} | PG10062 | |
HAPPINESS AND MARRIAGE
BY
ELIZABETH TOWNE
"The inner side of every cloud
Is bright and shining;
I therefore turn my clouds about,
And always wear them inside out--
To show the lining."
--_James Whitcomb Riley_.
"And I will show that there is no imperfection in the
present, and can be none in the future,
And I... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
When each has finished the work of helping the other to develop they
will either find themselves _really_ in love with each other, or they
will fall apart. _Some stronger attraction will separate them at the
right time_--perhaps through divorce, perhaps through death.
_All_ our goings and comings are due to the Law of... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The first principle of happy marriage is _equality_. The second
principle is _mutual confidence_, which can NEVER exist without the
first.
I do not mean by "equality" what is usually meant. One member of the
married twain may be rich, the other poor in worldly goods; one an
aristocrat, the other plebeian; one educated... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Much of this blending of natures is accomplished through passion, the
least understood of forces. And the children of a union of opposites,
even where there is _great_ contempt and unhappiness between the
parents, are almost invariably _better balanced_ than _either_ of the
parents.
I cannot believe that unhappy marri... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Individual freedom is the _only_ basis for harmonious action; not only
in marriage but in all other relationships of life.
And individual freedom _cannot_ be granted by the man or woman who
considers his or her judgments superior to the judgments of another. A
man _must_ accord his wife _equal_ wisdom and power with h... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
And above all trust the One Spirit to run you both.
If you do this your wife will _rise fast_ in your esteem. And the higher
she finds herself in your esteem the harder she will try to please you--
and rise higher.
And, girls, don't forget that the shoe fits equally well the other foot.
Either man or wife can bring ha... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
People who don't think are ruled by _feeling_. Women feel. They feel not
only for themselves but for other people. They shoulder the burdens of
the whole family and a few outside the family. They do it themselves--
because it is _easier_ to feel than to think. Nobody walks up to a woman
and says, "Here--I have a burde... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
What every man _hopes_ for when he marries a woman, is that she will be
a bright, trim, _reasonable comrade._ If she is even half-way that she
will get all the love and consideration she can long for. But in three-
quarters of the cases of marriage the woman degenerates into a whining
bundle of _thought-less_ FEELINGS... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
About nine-tenths of women's so-called "sympathy" is just about as
foolish and misplaced as that. If "B. B." would go up and get acquainted
with some of those small youngsters she sees gazing into the shop
windows she would find some of her illusions dispelled. She would find
among them less "longing" than she thinks,... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The professional pity-er is adding to the sum total of the world's
misery.
The world is like "sweet Alice Ben Bolt"; it laughs with delight when
you give it a smile, and gets out its pocket handkerchief to weep with
you when you call it "Poor thing!"
Then it cuts its call short and runs around the corner to tell your
... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
To love our work enlarges our capacity for loving people, and the more
we love people, _and the more people we love_, the more radiant
we become.
It is the radiant lover whom all the world loves. Do you know that love
and the lack of love are governed by "auto-suggestion"? It is _natural_
to love, as every child does.... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
But you have turned away from Jesus as a scapegoat. You refuse to lay
your burdens on him who offered to bear them; and you refuse to bear
them yourself. Instead you distribute them around among your relations
and friends and then fret your soul because they won't accept your
distributions. Of course you excuse yourse... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
_If you are ever going to be a magnet you are one now._ If you are ever
going to be able to attract to the hair's breadth whatsoever you will
_then you are doing it now_. There will be no miraculous change in the
running gear of this universe to enable you to attract what you want.
_What you now are in essence and wor... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Self-righteousness, by blinding your eyes to the truth, is the direct
cause of the most gigantic and the most subtle miseries of the world.
These awfully good people who fully realize how hard they have always
tried to do right, are the unhappiest people in the world--unless I
except Tom, Dick, Harry and Fan, the vict... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Now don't let this homily slip off _your_ shoulders. We are _all_
self-righteous in spots, and none of us is so _very_ wise that he cannot
by self-examination and readjustment learn a lot more.
Each soul _in its place_ is wisest and best. Don't _you_ try to get into
the pilot house and steer things for Tom, Dick, or H... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
And the first thing I knew my "burden" had grown _interesting_, and I
was _no longer lonesome_. I began to live my life to _please myself_,
instead of living it for the purpose of _making over_ the life
of another.
The _next_ thing I knew my husband didn't have so much business
downtown, and he had more things he want... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
But that mother did more for that family than all the others put
together. _She made the atmosphere_, and she was the life-giving sun
around which husband and children revolved, and from which they received
the real Light of Life--the power which develops the good in us.
The mother's main business in life was that of ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The foolish woman looketh upon the outward appearance and is troubled
over _many_ things. She wears herself out trying to keep the _outside_
immaculate and grieves her heart out because she misses the one thing of
great price, the _joy of loving and being loved, of trusting and
being trusted_.
Do you know that we are ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
1. You and your husband ARE close together--so close you are _One_.
_2_. If you would _feel_ the truth of this you must come to your husband
in faith-full love, and you _must not allow yourself_ to condemn or
judge, verbally or mentally, his revelations of himself. You must
vibrate _with_ him where you can, and _keep ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Fourth, unless you wish to fall behind the world's procession see that
you spend some time every day in reading the best magazines and
newspapers, taking pains to skip most of the criminal news. Read
optimistically and cultivate a quick eye for all the good things. Take
the _best_ magazines even if you have to leave f... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Note the order in which I have written these needs of life; an exact
reversal of the usual order. Housework _last_, and the Spirit of Comfort
first. The tendency of every woman is to lose _herself_ in troubling
over the many things of her household. If she would be happy, useful,
young and growing she MUST turn her li... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
That article, "So Near and Yet So Far," has brought forth volumes of
comment, most of it highly favorable, and nearly all of it from women
themselves. But among the writers were three critics, and among the
critics one of the brightest women I know, whose letter appears above.
And she says that article is to her disin... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The third critic, too, is full of self-pity, though she does not mention
her tears; and her letter is a long portrait of her husband's faults.
She wants a little encouragement to leave him, but she is afraid he will
go to the dogs if she does. So, like a generous woman, she sticks to him
and makes the best (?) of a ba... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
And above all a Taurus woman may rule her home--_and does_. Either she
rules by force--for she has more than her share of the man in her--and
makes war and trouble for herself and others; or she learns her lesson
and rules by _loving tact_; in which case her husband rises up and calls
her _blessed_. The _woman who kno... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
To me a divorce is not a disgrace, but a family row _is_. And I suspect
that most divorce _rows_ are worked up to _drown guilty consciences_.
Neither has done his best by the other, and he knows it; so he raises a
great row to fix attention on the other's shortcomings that his own may
escape observation.
Until a man a... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
It is funny how many women squirm when reminded that it is they who set
the pace in the home! We are always longing for power and a field of
effort, and then when a 20th century prophetess arises and tells us we
_are_ all but almighty, and shows us how to direct our almightiness to
accomplish results, we--well, we squ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Then there are Adams who are careless from petty spite--with shame I say
it. And with greater shame I say, you will find their Eves are spiteful,
too; probably more spiteful than the Adams; for Eve, you know, is
generally smart enough and ambitious enough to outdo Adam in any line of
endeavor--especially in the use or... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Now this little homily is written ostensibly to women; but all my men
subscribers will read it and applaud. _I wonder how many of them will
see that every word of it is as applicable to themselves, as to their
mothers, sisters, sweethearts, wives_? Every Eve is Adam at heart, and
every Adam is Eve; and what in sauce f... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Man and wife are a rounded whole in which the man manifests what is
latent in the woman, and the woman supplies that which in the man is as
yet undeveloped. Just as Eve coaxes, or scolds, Adam into habits of
neatness; as Adam coaxes, scolds or drives Eve into having his meals on
time, thus developing her self-command ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
"Oh, but _that_ can't be," you exclaim, "because So-and-So brings out
only the _evil_ in me. He makes me feel _so_ hateful and mean." Let us
see, dearie. _The hateful and mean feelings are due to your RESISTING
that which his influence would bring out of you._ For instance, you were
late at your appointment with him. ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
This is the way all our associations in life work together for good _to
develop our latencies_, to strengthen our weak points. _The wiser we are
the less emotion we waste in resenting the developing process--the more
readily we see the point and take the resolution hinted at._ You see you
and your friend had had other... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Is Adam kicking, Eve? Take a hint before he kicks harder. Is Eve making
things warm for you, Adam? Take care you jump not out of the frying pan
into the fire. Are circumstances plaguing you, Everybody? Take the hint
lest worse plagues arrive; learn wisdom and avoid the Red Sea.
Be not wise in thine own conceits. _Lean... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The wife in this case no doubt thinks just now that her marriage to
A.J., was "all a terrible mistake." If so she is making another
"mistake." That is, she is thinking what "ain't so." Whatever
experiences she has had with A.J. were drawn to her by herself, for her
own enlightenment and development. They were all _goo... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
There is that recent case of the beautiful and beloved Princess Louise
who ran away from her royal husband. She thought she loved Monsieur
Giron so devotedly that she could bear anything for the sake of being
with him. And surely she was miserable enough in her old environment.
But when it came to the reality she coul... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Now is the husband's chance. She _knows his_ every-day side, from
experience; she has tried it in weal and woe. If he rises to this
occasion the Ideal Man, he stands a fair chance of winning from his wife
a _deeper_ love than she has yet given any man. He may catch her _whole_
heart in its rebound from the idol with f... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
If I were a man in such a case as A. J.'s I should treat my wife as I
would a daughter. I would treat her as an Individual with the right
of choice.
Many a daughter has rushed headlong into a marriage which her relatives
opposed and she regretted at leisure.
If someone grabs you by the arm and pulls hard in one direct... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Love is the mightiest force in creation. It will not be gainsaid. But it
can be controlled. To pen it up too completely brings explosion,
devastation. To give it too free rein means madness with no less
devastation. To _direct_ it within reasonable limits is the only
safe way.
It takes a cool head and steadfast heart ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
This forcing of others, in mind or action, under the yoke of _our_
judgment is the only possible way we can break a _real_ Law. To be
_ourselves_ and to leave others free is to "_be good_." Dancing will
come and go, and come again; so will fashions of all kinds;
conventionalities and creeds; but this Law remains an et... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The man who _thinks_ his desire is "bad" and yet follows it, will grow
in wisdom _by the scourging he gets_. He has transgressed _his
conception_ of the One Law and suffers in getting back to _at-one-ment_.
In either case he _grows in wisdom_ and eventually he will desire only
in accordance with the One Law of Individ... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
CHAPTER X.
HARMONY AT HOME.
"I have recently married for the second time. My husband is a splendid
man but his grown up children are not in harmony with me. Good people,
but a different point of view. I make no pretensions to perfection, of
course, but I do try to do the best lean."
This is the gist of several letters... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
All this differing of judgment among the people of earth is simply _God
reasoning out things_. All the brains God has are your brains and mine.
Just as in your brain you reason things for and against, wondering which
is right and waiting for time and experience to decide; so God reasons
one way through _your_ brain an... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The thing for you to do is to recognize your husband's RIGHT to make and
answer for his own mistakes. Then drop the whole thing from your mind
and calculations.
Then treat your husband as you would any man who came to visit you. Make
yourself as attractive and cultured and agreeable as possible, and look
out for his c... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Whatever is the cause of your trouble the only cure for it is
Common-Sense. Live your own life, cheerily, happily, and enter into your
husband's life so far as you can. Take all the good things that come
your way and rejoice in them, but don't moon around and fuss because you
can't have the sort of love-life described... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The parent's "duty" to children is great; far greater than the child's
duty to parent; but parental self-sacrifice should certainly _not_ be
continued for life. A grown daughter is an Individual, who should stand
on her own feet and make her own happiness _without_ curtailing the
happiness of parents.
Let her leave he... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
All of which is the very superficial view of the world at large, and
has no place among new thought, "occult" teachings. It is entirely too
obvious--to the old-fashioned sentimentalist, who is blind to the real
facts in cases of separation.
The sentimentalist gets just two views of the family, and draws his
hasty conc... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
Of course there are other reasons why women hate to be left by their
husbands. One is that their support is apt to go with the deserter.
Public opinion keeps many a family in the same house years after it
really _knows_ it is separated widely as the poles.
The dread of having to take care of herself keeps many a woman... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
The family is an institution of man's own making. It is a good and
glorious thing so long as it serves to increase the happiness and health
of its members. But whenever the family institution has to be maintained
at the expense of the life, liberty or happiness of its members it is
time to lay that particular institut... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 | |
One thing at a time! Get off with the old love before you go fretting
about a new one! Don't you think you are a silly girl to ask _anybody's_
advice as to whether or not you are to go back to your so-called
husband? If _I_ know what _you_ ought to do I don't see what _you_ are
worth to yourself or the universe. The t... | Happiness and Marriage | Towne, Elizabeth | 1865 | 1960 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Marriage'} | PG10063 |
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