I love you so ! If you send me away I 'll go to the dogs . Forgive me , Bessy . '' And she , being a woman , did forgive him . `` I 've loved you from the first , Lawrence , '' she said , yielding to his kiss . Their Girl Josie When Paul Morgan , a rising young lawyer with justifiable political aspirations , married Elinor Ashton , leading woman at the Green Square Theatre , his old schoolmates and neighbours back in Spring Valley held up their hands in horror , and his father and mother up in the weather-grey Morgan homestead were crushed in the depths of humiliation . They had been too proud of Paul ... their only son and such a clever fellow ... and this was their punishment ! He had married an actress ! To Cyrus and Deborah Morgan , brought up and nourished all their lives on the strictest and straightest of old-fashioned beliefs both as regards this world and that which is to come , this was a tragedy . They could not be brought to see it in any other light . As their neighbours said , `` Cy Morgan never hilt up his head again after Paul married the play-acting woman . '' But perhaps it was less his humiliation than his sorrow which bowed down his erect form and sprinkled grey in his thick black hair that fifty years had hitherto spared . For Paul , forgetting the sacrifices his mother and father had made for him , had bitterly resented the letter of protest his father had written concerning his marriage . He wrote one angry , unfilial letter back and then came silence . Between grief and shame Cyrus and Deborah Morgan grew old rapidly in the year that followed . At the end of that time Elinor Morgan , the mother of an hour , died ; three months later Paul Morgan was killed in a railroad collision . After the funeral Cyrus Morgan brought home to his wife their son 's little daughter , Joscelyn Morgan . Her aunt , Annice Ashton , had wanted the baby . Cyrus Morgan had been almost rude in his refusal . His son 's daughter should never be brought up by an actress ; it was bad enough that her mother had been one and had doubtless transmitted the taint to her child .
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