Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

162 DANGER IN THE DARK.
Poor Isadora! ere this, I doubt not, she repents the
fatal step."
"Isadora, her name t" inquired Alonzo eagerly.
" Yes, Isadora Norwood;" responded the hermit.
"I'm familiar with her history."
"With Isadora's history ~"
" Yes, but knew not before, that her father was a
hermit."
" She knows not that I am living. Of whom did
you learn her history ~"
"Enola Glenn told it me."
" Enola ~ precious girl! when a child I knew her
well. Does she say Isadora's still living ~"
"When last I saw Miss Glenn, she had nothing
heard to the contrary."
" Oh, had I but given heed to the wise counsel of
Enola's mother, my daughter might have been saved
from the cloister, and the shackles of papal superstition;
she faithfully warned me against the danger of
sending her to a Romish school; but too late was I
convinced of the folly and blindness of my course."
Alonzo was now induced to speak more freely of
his own history and misfortnnes; he related the story
of his love and disappointment, and how he was led
into infidelity and dissipation. The sad history
touched the hermit's heart, and led him to counsel the
youthful Carleton, with all the solicitude, tenderness
and affection of a father.
" Allow not," said he, "the abominations of Popery
to drive you from that religion which is pure and