Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 September 1891 — Page 6
A FRIEND AFAR.
Tell me, yon who w«nt to sleep Maaj years ago* Leaving us lo silence deep
In this world belowBare you found that Inner Uie Whereof we did talk, IV removed from hate and strife,
Peace your dally walk
When yc*a dropped your eyelids down, Did "there aeem to fall Through the silence, like a crown,
A sweet, silvery call! Did your tears disturb your rest! Could you hear us sob! Would your death have seemed more ble«\
Had we hushed each throb)
Is that new world fair and bright As we used to deem! Have you knowledge? nave you light
On each earthly theme? Never any word comes back Since yon left this shore. If of joy you know no lack—
Never any more.
Could we know. O friend afar! Where your footsteps tread. On some glorified bright star,
Crowned with peace your head Could you but one garland drop From your asphodel How our wooderings would stop*
As the fragranee fell! Still la dreams we see thee pass With an angel chclr, 13? the storied sea of glass
That is mixed with fire Face uplifted fair aad calm. Step sedate aad slow, Fingers holding boughs of palm
Such as angels know•
•-Eleanor W, F. Bates, in Woman's Journal
L\ A PREDICAMENT.
Avhat Game of Nell's Masquerading in Grandma's Clothes.
In an easy-chair on the broad, oldiashioned portico that extended the entire length of the rambling old farm house, sat a young girl, rocking leisurely to and fro from the crown of her head to the tip of her dainty slipper told what she was—a city girL
A slight noise caused her to glance carelessly over her shoulder a change instautly swept over her face the color left her cheeks and a look of terror crept into her eyes.
In the doorway stood the figure of an old woman dressed in a quaint brocade satin the style of forty rears ago. Soft laces lay in graceful folds around her white throat her silky brown hair was smoothed carefully beneath the dainty cap trimmed with pretty lavender ribbons behind the large gold-rimmed spectacles a pair of dark eyes twinkled •with merriment. ••Grandma Parker." gasped the girl. "i it you or your ghost''"
A peal of silvery laughter burst from the woman as- she flunir herself in a rustic chair. "X eh her. my dear Ethel don't vou know your, own sister?'* "I do now," faltered Ethel, a smile ••..taking the place of that startled look. "V hat put it into your head to dress v.p in that stylo.?'' •"For want of better employment. I suppose. After grandpa arid grandma left. I felt rather-lonesome, so I concluded to co to.ths garret and \2x up' like 1 did when 1 .was a child." '•A child, indeed. Vou speak as though you were as old as Methuselah!" "1 a:n eighteen and feel quite grown up. Well, to proceed with my story. I was up in the garret, wasn't I? The first thing 1 saw was a large oaken chost. the one we used to play house on. so 1 took a jeep into it to see. what mysteries it contained. The first thing that met my gaze was this"—pointing to her dress. "I thought I would put it era and see if I did look like grandma eve/yone says I am the 'living image' of her. Then I came down to scare
Dorothy, she is so superstitious and world imagine the horses had run ofi, or something dreadful had happened and grandma's ghost was appearing to her. Hut Dorothy was out. she always is if you want her. You were the only one left, so I tried the experiment on you. and from your actions I think 1 succeeded. This is the way you looked." And Nell leaned back in her chair, roiled her eyes around in a manner that was truly startling, and at the same time exclaimed in tragic tones: "is it you or your ghost?" "What a torment you are! Perhaps if you had been in my place you would will help you all 1 can. have looked worse than I did. Vou a.i resemble grandma. Where are you going?" fur Nell had started down the gravel path. "Just down to the hammock," she returned carelessly. "Eleanor Parker Cameron, you shall do no such tiling!'' "Why not?" questionei Xell, coo'ilv. '"Sumo, one might see you and then what uould they say! The, country is such a dreadful place for gossip." "We have been here three days and not a soul has come near, or a ghost
1 But how foolish I am in stAyingr here so long. Til go to the house at once," -kJ Just as she was rising from the swing a pair of strong arms were thrown around her neck and a hearty kiss was planted on her red lips. "You can't scare me, I know who you are," she said calmly, thinking it was EtheL "Are rou sure you do?M exclaimed a tantalizing voice.
As the strange tones fell on her ears, she turned in astonishment* for there stood a tall, broad shouldered young man with laughing blue eyes and flowing blonde mustache. "Who—who are you, and how dared you do that?" she cried, indignantly. '•Grandma Parker, is it possible you do not remember your boy? Has ten years so changed him that you do not recognize him?" **Ten years changes every one," Nell
answered, evasively for she saw this
was some one who knew her grand-
mother, and resolved not to betray
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ot you, he returned, warmly
"you look at least twenty years younger than you did when I left, What a lovely color you've got. Indeed I am almost in love with you myself if Grandpa Parker was dead I would marry you to-morrow—if you would let me." "What nonsense!" she laughed. "Come to the house: my granddaughter, Ethel Cameron, is here and I wish you to meet her." "I will on conditions. I told mother not to expect me home for tea. Will you let me stay? you always did." "Agreed," she replied "that is Ethel on the porch is she not pretty?" "Very nice looking, a regular blonde, but I prefer brown hair and rosy cheeks."
Nell smiled broadly at the very plain compliment, and thought how disgusted Ethel would be when she would tell her.
By this time they had reached the house. "What if Ethel should tell him?" she thought. "I will risk it anyway." Stepping forward and looking her straight in the eyes, she said: "Allow me to introduce my grandchild to you Miss Cameron, Mr. she stopped short, for it occurred to her that she did rot know his name, and she hoped he would tell it.
In her endeavors to smother a laugh, Ethel began coughing violently. "You must have caught a cold last night: you remember you stayed out in the damp to watch the moon." "Why, grandma!" exclaimed the stranger, in astonishment, "you surely are mistaken, for there was no moon last night." "You should not contradict your elders." answered Nell, severely. "I will leave Ethel to entertain you while 1 ee Dorothy about the supper," and ignoring Ethel's appealing look, she started for the kitchen. iJorothy was nowhere to Ik1 founa. "She must be at trie s-nnng house," thought Nell, and immediately started in that direction, .lust as she reached the garden gate the:6bieet of her search came up the hill with a bucket of water in one hand and a pan of eggs in the he "Dorothy!" she called out. 7,
The woman looked wildlv around her. "Where are yon?" she gasped. "Here by the gate."
Dorothy gave one glance, then uttered a shriek, turned and ran down the hill. In her haste she stumbled and fell, the bucket overturned and the contents spilt all over her. "What can be the matter?" muttered Nell, as she hastened after her. "Are you much hurt?" she asked, sympathetically. "It's her ghost—her ghost!" she groaned. "It is only Nell, don't yon know me? I put grandma's dress on just for fun." "Well, you do lpok a heap like her." "I came to tell you there would be company here to tea." "Law sakes. you don't say so! Help me up. We'll have to be spry or it will be late." She tried to rise, but sank back with a groan. "It's my foot," she moaned "I must have sprained it."
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either. I almost wished ttiey would." "What, the ghosts?" "Of course not," she cried, (impa| tiently. "how can you be so stupid? I meant the neighbors." "Vou should say what you mean." began Ethel, severely, then laughed in spite ofoherself. "Uood-by. Ethel," Xell called out. "If you get into any trouble, don't look to me to help you out." "Don't worry. 1 can take care of myself. There!" she exclaimed, as she settled herself in the hammock, "that's
comfort, but what if some one thouiji dainty iinasrinablecorae. She turned and looked to *"I should think so," Nell replied, indifmantly. "That, with rich cream, lifjht bread and sweet butter what more could he ask for?"
wards the house. "No," she said, firmly, "if I go back. Ethel will laugh and 1 never could stand that. What if anybody does see me—I don't care!"
Hut she did care, and glanced carefully np and down the level stretch of smooth country road. "The coast is clear," she muttered. "•I'll stay a little while just to show Ethel I'm not a coward. In the meantime I will read, it will help to pass away the time."
Opening the dainty little blue voltsme she began to read. An hour passed, then another, but still she lingered, fascinated by the interesting btory. "Poor Beatrice Earl." she half •whispered, as she brushed the tears from her eyes. "The author was right "when she said: 'The consequences of lolljr seldom end with iw origisAtor.'
Can't you manage it some way? I Here is an old
gave a siph of relief when she saw ium disappear down the lane. "Such a nice agreeable man," remarked Ethel "Don't you think so, Sell?" "X—o!" she cried, bursting into a flood of tears. "I think he is horrid. lie kissed me"—sob—"and said he would marry me if gTandpa would die"—sob, sob—"what will he say when he finds it out?" and the tears began to flow faster than ever. "You are in a strange predicament, to be sure, but I will help you if I can —although 1 said I wouldn't —grandpa will be home on Saturday. Can you keep up your disguise that long?" "I'll try to." "Then everything will be all right. You had better manage to keep out of the waj" all you can. This is Tuesday and I suppose he won't be here more than once or twice in that time. Per- .. haps it will be better for both of us to
broom: you can use it for a cane." "Well, we'll try it, but gather the eggs up first." "We will have to do without them." Nell replied, grimly, "for the majority "No, although different things puzof them played catch down the hill, zled me. I thought it was because I had and you are sitting on the remainder." not seen you for so long. Come, Nell,
With difficulty, Dorothy reached the answer my question and not keep me house, but sank in an exhausted con- •, cition on the jteps. I "l!r ng me the arnica bottle you will I find it in the left-hand corner on the second shelf in the kitchen cupboard.
It feels better already," she said, after she had given it a thorough rubbing "but who will get the supper?" "I can." Nell answered, briefly. "You!" in astonishment. "Why, I didn't know city girls could work." "Try me and see." "I suppose I'll have to. What will
"Oh, it's-a gentleman who is he?"" her curiosity fully aroused. "A friend of grandma's."
As Nell harried from dining-room to kitchen, her thoughts wandered to the stranger. "AN ho was he and where did ho come from?"' were the questions that constantly filled her mind. How bitterly she rued what she had done. Here she was playing the part of a
smion on Saturdav, and
a 1 will introduce vou as my sister who
if
shouW meet him or i{ he happcned
wheu we come back, w0
has just arrived." Nell sprang up and flung her arms around Ethel's neck. "What a dear you are!" she cried, impulsively. "Vou can think of everything." "I hope it will turn out all right," was the doubtful answer.
Friday came and Nell breathed freer. "I can hardly wait for to-morrow to come, for then I shall be out of bondage. Do vou think he will come to-day, Ethel?" "Very likely," was the cool reply. "If I remember rightly, he has been here every day since he came home." "He is here now," Nell exclaimed, as the well-known figure of Ci: stranger, as the girls called him, came up the gravel path.
An hour passed swiftly the stranger was in the midst of an interesting Btory that occurred in Berlin, when the sound of carriage wheels fell upon their ears. Glancing up they saw a sight that almost made Nell's heart stop beating. She grasped the arm of her chair and with tightly closed lips watched the approach of the carriage. Now it stopped at the gate. Out sprang a hearty old gentleman, followed by a smiling old lady. Arm in arm they came leisurely up the path until they caught sight of the occupants of the portico, then they hurried forward with outstretched hands. "Well, well, bless my soul!" ejaculated Mr. Parker (for it was he), "glad to see you home again." shaking the stranger's hand: just at that moment his eyes fell on Nell. "What on earth has that child been doing, dressing up for the stage, eh?"
Instead of answering Nell fled into the house, closing the door behind her, while the astonished group looked oc in silence.
Ethel came to rescue, explained the matter as best she could, blaming Nell as little as possible. "I hadn't any idea of this." said the stranger. "Will you introduce me, grandma?" "Certainly," she returned "lis is
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Frank Meade, the son of our nearest neighbor. I knew him at once, although it is ten years since I saw him last- What. going already? Then I shall expect you to dinner to-morrow."
Early the next morning Nell started for the orchard, for she felt as though she could not face Mr. Meade. Sitting beneath the friendly shade of an apple tree, she wondered if he had come yet, and what he thought of her. Looking up she saw the object of her thoughts leaning against a neighboring tree, regarding her thoughtfully. She started up, but he caught her hands in his and said he had come to talk with her. "As well now as any time," she replied, coldly. "I suppose you have come to lecture me." Then she told him how wretched she had been and how she hated herself for the part she had played. "If I only had told you at first," she continued, "how much trouble it would have saved, but I thought I could hide my folly. But grandpa ~ill never stop teasing me, and worse than all, Dorothy has to surfer for me." "Broken bones are easier mended than broken hearts," he returned. I "What do you mean?" she demanded. "That I love you dearly will you marry me?" "You will never call me grandma or laugh at me. will you?"' "No. indeed!" "And you didn't suspect who I was, did vou?"
in suspense any IciDg-er." "Since you seem so anxious about it, I reaiiy suppose 1 will have to sayyes."
When they vrent in to dinner Mr. Parker asked, jokingly: "How is grandma to-day?" "If yon please, sir, said Frank, "this lady has promised to be Mrs. Meade. We have decided on .the'25th.-of Augnst. I invite you all to the wedding." "Well, well. welK I never thought of such a th'.ns. Take her, mv bov. and you -.viU ue happy ii she i~ anvthing like her Xirandma Parker.' Home. •.«•'.••
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you get to eat?" "We havft plenty of fruit, cold meat, and with the strawberries that will be •. sufficient." "Will that be enough?" inquired Dorothy, doubtfully, for she delighted to see a table loaded down with every
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