Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 July 1874 — Page 7

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ave more pain than pleasure to St©*©, as the long summer days went by, and Dana continued with him the comparison ceased to annoy him, and togeMi they spent many hours in the jjlci jus antumn air, -walking and drlv-

'"Sere despite his declaration "that he should never marry," was the first one to discover the true motive that kept Dana among them, and in truth, so frank a nature as Dana's could not long conceal a love so great as his for Louise. And as the days went by, and Steve lost no opportunity of leaving them alone together, and often to her hespoke wr,rds of praise of Dana. Louise came nt last to bel 'v« that Steve never cared for her, and r^—ciug in the comforting delusion that her heart was seared by hla indifference, had, partly from weariness with dv&rrthinff S^VaSol to Will Dana,

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»It's htm to be off with tbeokl k«re» lVfore you are on V"h **t# new," it was a hazy, br •••iu.j day 5» late autumn. There was no clear shitting, and yet no token of a storm. Tbe wood* glowed «:r* iimoii, anrf 'tCand and gold borderv-vi the o«ei^ the streams, and purple mists hung etherial over the horixon.

The hall door of the Cart well homestead stood Invitingly open. The bright stalr-earpet* with to shinhag brass rode, tho nouuiislve ciock ait the head 01 the landing the time-stained map upon the wall, aR looked quaint and old-fashjon-ed and comfortable.

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faint lilac£and jlden-headed chrysanthoaiuins wore sull blossoming. Just outside the hall door Steve Cartwell leaned upon his cratch and watched

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liant centre of the croup of players. She was oddly cons as, even as she made a sd- "split stroke," which sent her advciwy's ball far out of position and drove her own through two w' of the tall figure leaning upon hi :h, and the dark eyes which followed her, and she was taking in the bitterness of his expression, with a woman's true, quick insight into its mea»ing.

For veas* I^ouise had watched in vain for such a look as Steve's fee© now wore a glance of mingled passion, fir^ nnd regret, which made her heart to *t ,-u id still for very happiness. In those now faroff days, Louise for one wmmer had dreamed a bright dream of love, and she was Mating the fonnal avowal, when the ac lent occurred which had taken all the strength, and the glory of manhood out or Steve Cart well's life and oauscd aA estrangement between them. For Steve, in the bitterness of the despair that Allowed the lose of his limb, and the shattering of his health, with a self-scorn that was pitiful, as it was wicked, withdraw hinwel frow* Louise's society. Ho told hmSllf ha the could not expect more than woman's pity now, and this idea, to him whose chance of winning woman's love had been so strong, was bitterly repulsive.

Still life at the Cart well homestead wasjnot without Dleasaat wWte. TJm» family consisted Of three, With tlie servants, Mrs. Dan forth, Louisa ant! Steve. Steve called Louise cousin they had been brought up like brother and sister, but in reality sho was only step-daughter to his aunt Dan forth.

Four years had passed since the accident when WiilDana came to visit Steve. Ho had been Steve's Mend in college, had left him in the full flush of early manhood had found him a crippled, morbidly sensitive man. At first the comparison between himself and Dana

__ and oveiybody, herself most allowed herself to liccome en

How it all rushed through her mind,

while she stood there Idly swinging her mallet under the fnwrant ptnf*. II baautiftti aho looked, with a tint upon

Amid the laughing and bamlcr^tiHi

for with her. She knew sh- uld know no I from th« engagement, if her dlscov-

fluimfwd tine explanations mM be

^SJlSyto Dan*. They wajfcS on where the lawn «w«p4 #w«, «twn

nndcr the chestnut «nnm» the

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autumnal day leaves room In Jfturaral for sadneaa. I confess U* mrianchoTly ... mtgl—

f^treapeiiUotitMUl to wrbstt Iw"*

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her ahecks, that rhrstod, lit aoftM, and hue the rose buds (hat nestled in her nut-brown faltt and the light of a triumi^hani love bwiming in soft brown

her, his tall erect figure and perfe^.maftbeauty lithe Mid graceful girl whom he lovod so well. j-*\

Mi*. Danforth called to LOttl»0 that It ate^rtursfd

ISd ^S^oS^hTbriRM^tookfeh««lnut tn¥. th* «ott« *mm ahe had boatowed upon h«r l» ahe had bestowed upon h«r for an «g», and that worthy personage congratulated herself that Lmtls* really loved Dana af^ ter all* and her motherly oyesaaw noihing but miahief In the hard stroke Uwat Mint Dan«'« ball bounding Outside the limits of the croquet grooml, While Looted flew down to her partner croqueted it out, the aent struck the stake 'hiiMpr was won.

TEKRE

the abundant* oC Ue early autumn, will

not be to us the most raiegfcl our livea?" Louise was KihMit for a ino|tieot, h»r yea flHed with team, as *1» watoPd bow like a clap of buoder out of a clear skv, her woida would awakeuhim but Louiaawas not ooe to know by duty.

took along time lal.andatUsdoaeWiUIan*fW lookdown upon h®r, with 'Kofba-

wl^ldemStrt ''upon W hanvinome fsce,

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whtoh «h«wod1how hard it was for him aid her. **im .u mean, Lpttiae, that alter dl you hat' tpromised me, that yem love as• t" II*- leaiwd alt t, I Louiat i*»uMI see was iwn, and white.

him, ut I did not know I* .w much until to-day, awl (hen, looking Into my own heart, 1 *i how utterly, and basely h«d wr..!!i{.'a you, and how much I lovel him." "1 ulae," he ssaid, "1 am a proud man. :u»i i» lovwl you le«s I could not humtlwUu wjywlf to plead to you bo careful that you we not making a greater mistake !-"W than before. You have allowed your pity to work mischief for you. You are romantic, Ixiuise do not let vour pitying tenderness shut you off from my love. Oh, lxui»e, you do love me, come to me, trust me my whole being pleads for, demands you. Did youthink my love had taken so slight a hold upon mv heart that I could give you up so easily "Oh, Will, I do honor, trust and respoct you, but I do not love you: believe me, and ob, forgive me."

Will Dana came still closer to her, his whole soul in a stormy wrestle with good and evil. "And you will let me go away Louiae. It is going forevojr I shall not see your Usee again. Say aaain that you are sure you love him," thinking only of Stovy.

Yes, Will, I am sure." And he lovea you. God make him worthy of you!" A swift kias was pressed upon her brow, and In a moment she was alone.

In silence the crimson leaves wore dropping about her, and all unnoticcd the suvery aoag of a blue bird, shook itself down from the branches overhead, for left alone Louise had given way to an unrestrained passion of weeping. A halting step stirred the grass beside her, and looking up she met the sad eyes of Stew CartwcU, bent Inquiringly upon her Ihco.

Pardon me, I was not aware that I was intruding," ho said, a little Unsteadiness la his voice, and then ooupliug T^niso's evident embarrassment with

Louise's the fact of linding her alone, he sprang at oneeto tlic coneiaaion that there had been a lover's quarrel. At sight Of her tars Steve forgot himself in his trouble her, and only meaning to comfort her, he said the very tiling in his eagerness roost likely to grievo her.

Come, come, my sweet cousin, tears will never do. Will Iaiia is a noblo fellow, and no matter which of you may t)0 to blame, he will not be the one to let a inisundflritandlug*loud h&PP>B4PS: forlohg. "Perhaps he is nc4 fer away now, let me carry the word to Theseus that Ariadne calls him back?"

No, oh, no! I am sure I never wish to see him again." There was no regret in her voice, and tho eyes she lifted to his were sweet and brave.

Steve flslt a sudden irritation rising in his soul, to him who from the porch had witnessed her seeming pleasure in Dana's society, who had seen her color come and go, and face put on a look of happiness never

Been

there before, he

could account for the change in no oUiar way thwalow for^rtiw^"Another victim I don't cxplai^ pwy, the list j* Ho painfully long »rready but if your conscience remtuns quiet of couree I can," and Steve's voice sounded harsh and cynical.

A flush of color swept over Louise cheek. She was filled with resentment, and shame. She had been to blame, and yet if she could but explain her motive now differently her conduct would

hands lain in his—two eves had mot his own. ••Louis©," ho said, "can It be possible that yon love mo, a helpless cripple? I have been cruel in remaining blind to your nature 1 biv® reaWfcd from ft wistaken sense of duty, what would have been—what will bo If yott do n# turn away—my on® happiness in this life. Forgive far in my maimed body dwells a H- .f aH your own to its last beat." Jl« diffused murmurs of theitriattr, the v«»k* of tti» wind, which aw^pt«v«r th« tawny flald* and pnder the nw«et wwhJs, brinsring to .o

while the sunlighl feu amund thorn, lilted th

Who *Wi not fortm the end

m. Having a tple of coffins find placed Tn ti femlly vault, ht home one night in tshey conveyed him enugy mber of of the

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a senaelNW. mm twth away 1] famny watch his

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la ,. exclaimed: .^ Am I deaaf

OntiSnlM hit sepulchral frtead "How long have I bun .asked,

About thre# years," wasthe "Andwr he a«Mn 1m)US

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toward uis 6»ce

Will, I mnat be with

mvw! and ym now." Ti«- words ft* ^ttsady, and hravc, though hef

effort to mieak them. "I love

A Life in the Balance.

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fore she vras swsrte. Ho was looking down into her &ce, their ev6smet» For an instant she saw his dilate with a passionate emotion which made hers droop, onlv an instant, but it carried them for towards an understanding. They bad both made a mistake, ana her rashness had brought to her its own retributive pangs, and the reproach in his tones had foreed them to reveal themselves. Steve forgot hla satire, and his bitterness and then in a breath's apaoe bo was down upon the frost-seared grass by her mde. The parting hour so long ago came baeJc

BaUoak."

CHAPTER XXX,

tuuminw TUB TMUW. It was a glorious day, on the oonfinea of winter, hut with summer breathing is the air. The earth lay i» undor Um x*y* of a May-tide warmth. Tho laat skirt of winter's ermine eloak had vinW»«a from the hollows and which it longest weara. The fetters that had bound the streams were broken, and they ran and prattled on with a aong of manumission, foil of muSKs to toe winter-weary tor. On the fields a foint green waa reiOadiig the Aided giay. which had be«i (he color of their yearly mourning. But to thai wheat fields, which lay here and there, a bright verdancy gave fuller promise of tho coming spring. The air, warmed bv the solar beam*, clung round all wayfarers with that l»atmy touch which is so delightful after the froaty embrace of the season of cold. At its gentle command overcoats and aha wis were thrown off, and men and women walked Into this enchanting atmosphere as one might walk into a uath of warm wines ana rich odora.

In the oemoterv—with ita endless marble shaft* and statutes, its grand outlook upon the beautiful river that ran at ita feet, and the line landseape north and south—the green spring snowed Itself under the shelter of gruve-stonwi, and in rich, vordant contrast to the polished white of monumental columns.

The sunlight lay, iu warm patches upon flraveiled pathways and rounded graves?as bright and Joyous over this field of death as over the throbbing life of the city. Karth's wintry death was yielding to a gladsome life under Its soft mandate. But a death lay. marked by the white «tnnn*~ bevoml tho power of tho ylel_ spiritual sun of the universe.

So thought Clara Reynolds, as ahe wandered pensively through the boiuitlfol scene, that spoke less of deaths stern hand than of the llfb-giving touch of the living artist. Yet the brightness of the acono, the warm glow and aspiring significance of stntue and column, failod to lilt her heart from tho weight of the deeper significance of tho place. She had sunk into sorrowful thought since entering the enclosure. With envious eyes she marked tho deep senso of restfulness which lay upon the scone, and praved, with that silent prayer called desire, that she, too, might soon reach that bourne of weary brains and wounded hearts, and fhll to sleep in that deep bod to which the pain and misery of earth can never come. yet she had entered here impelled by hope, and full of life's desire. But the person whom she had expected to meet was not visible: aud tho sad mood, which lately had held her so deeply its prisoner, came upon her ngain, as she wandered through the silent paths of this city of the doad, with all its old force.

Turning thecorner of a clump of ever-

3cns, sht ame abruptly upon him she boon tKM^klng, as he slowly advanced by an oppo ii© pathway.

Her lover -for despite all her forboding, her 1- v6r hft continued to be~gravely her offered hand, arid greeted her in the quietest of'tones.

There was, in fact, something chilling in Ms manner, that affected her unleasantlv. She involuntarily withrew her hand from his, and walked on silently by his side, wondering and depressed by this unusual demeanor. The appointment, she thought, must have a serious object if it could so seriously affect his impulsive nature. ...

He led her onward for some distance through the cemetery, without a word, walking in a slow, grave manner, Uiat added to her surprise. He stopped at length near some graves less pretentious than those they had been passing. Before them rose a modest stone, with a few plain lines of inscription, and as ornament a dove, with wings poised for

at my oljectin

bringing you here," he remarked, turn-

^«J"y»hehreplied, looking with an inquiring glance into-his fece. "I have sufficient purpose/' ho continued,

uas

you will admit. I told you

yesterday, and not yesterday for the first time, that you had wronged ire. I Mdd no more then, for I knew that I was not prepared to substantiate my words. I am fully aware that you did not accept Josephs' charge against mo without proof that seemed to you unanswerable, ami, having had «u«h proof, I caunot wonder at your persistence in your belief." "Convince me that I have wronged you, and it will be the happlost moment of my life," she criod, involuntarily clasping her hands. "You are a noble girl, Laura, ho Mdd, losing his measured tone, and looking admiringly into her face. "Few would be so willing to aduiit themselves in^fault, even With proof to the

Any one would with my reasons," she replied. "I know that you were not aware of tho malignity ot your informant, and accepted tils prooft much more uttquwtlonlngly than yon would have done had you known film better,* he continued. "He was not without buds for his statement. I was married young I did wife."

wifflfw to pari from my cottftdOHOfe* Ami that wp» Mbid. "What am I to

was his whole*tory**she am fto understantfV

That he la a born villain, and able to tarn the most i^tioceat events into mat-

fa the carimson foliage of the Lter for Ids base sfthemes. I parted from tM loM tier, and went out alow U$o the world, '^wSerer^she hastily iu«ked, alight

".'.'gsify pointing downward, "That stone marks ihe grave of my first dream of

^Jtequkskly bml dwrm with a sudden joy 111 suited to a pl*^of gravMs and read the Inscription on the humble alone before her:

"aAcwrorawt* _.

xsifoar or aura o!ti.r wAroMTKR or jnttKWWuBi aw» wira or

grieved aij»ereljr, %«nt naivre of my pa sever

re of my pasieo lb* *h«

/LTURPXS71TVTCNIK mxtl:

him from ceteWng her np impuhtlvely in bia arma, and covering i«x feee with

the woman have seen 1—her and honeet story!—-the certificate! What a ml to beasked, a alight cioud cro?p-

strslghtforward marriage certitk lieve ?,rshe aake

Ingberooantettance. A diatraet so dm and slrong as h«» had been waa «wt UgUtiy to be remoyed. Ita root had struck deep into her mind, and must be extracted one by one.

I have eocne hero prepared to end all your doubts*" he repfied. "I ha*« never yet seen this reimted wlte of mine, and am curious to learn what kind of a looking creatur^sb© will prove. We shall both see ber in a moment.'!

She roee hastily from her half-reclin-ing position upon the marble slab, and

preaching she recognised at a glance aa her friend Laura. The latter, with a light bound, and a laughing cry of reoognltfcm, was in a moment at her fHenTs ride, and had clasped her lovingly in her arms. "O you dear, good, charming creature I'Uhe cried, in panUng aocenta, "I could bail devour you, I declare I could —only there are some unreasonable beings would not be satisfied to have you disposed of In that way. Aini you glad toaeemef I know I am happy enough, In all conscience, to get you in my arms and to kiss that dear old face again. "Old iheo, Laura Do I look so ancient t" aaked her friend, with a laugh. "Why, you good child, I do not know which la the youngest, to-day, you or I that is, I wouldn't know but for the spring sunshine in your fece, white mine is the more sober glow of autumn.'

Autumn! Dear, how venerable yos have grown! And yet your ludr is not a bit gray! But here Mrs. Wilmer waiting to speak to you."

While this rapid interchange or greetings waa going on, Hobert was scanning, with curious eyes, the person who had so long been reputed to be his wifo. Tho little woman, on the contrary, after an unrecogniring glance at his face, looked away, her eyes wandering rapidly from point to pointof the scene.

Miss Reynolds now turned to her, with words of greeting, happy Miss hands such an age since I Baw you. And this is such a pretty place to meet in. I ha never been to Laurel Hill before, and had no idea it was so nice a spot."

Very pretty indeed," said Miss Reynolds, smiling at the fancy of a graveyard ss a desirable place of meeting. "One moment, if you please, Mrs. Wilmer," said Laura, taking her attention, "I wish to speak to you again about tho gentleman who is claimed as your husband." "Yes indeed! You said I should see him to-day, and I supposed that was what you brought me hero for," she answered, castingner rapid glance around, but passing it lightly over Robert W ilmer, who stood, with fiercely beating heart, half in dread that this strange woman might be making some untlipughtof claim upon him.

Miss Reynolds, too, watched the woman with a fierce intensity—a half-ha-tred, as tho roving eyes dwelt upon the man beside her, lest the claim she had so long believed just might now destroy her rising happiness. But as the eyes moved on uneasily, the belief died out of her mind, and its place was filled with the warmth of an intense joy.

This!" cried the woman, in a shrill tone, "this Robert Wilmer! My Robert? Why, ciild, I never saw the man before. Whatever put that idea into your head?"

This is tho man who has been said to be your husband. Tho certificate which Mr. Josephs got from you was to lay upon him the charge of having married and deserted you. He is the person who was condemned to death through causes partly arising from this charge. You are sure that there is no mistake about it?—that he may not be your husband transformed in some way?" asked Laura, with a mocking smile.

Well, it's really curious/' said the woman, looking intently at Robert,who stood silently Defore her. "And he came near being hung on my account? I didn't think, and I don't think now, that I'm quite worth that. Now that I look at you close, sir, you do favor my RoVort something—some sert of a fami-ly-likeness. You are certainly not himuelf—that I can vouch for."

I thank vou heartily for saying that," said Robert, extending his hand with a sentiment or gratitude to tho woman who had thus repudiated him.

Khe wrung the offered hand, as II performing an allotted taskAnd I join in thanking your," said Miss Revnolds. "From the bottom of my heart I thank you for teaching me that I have been hasty, unjust, and foolishly credulous."

And I thank vou," cried Laura, "for teaching these two people what I would havo taught them long ago If they had only given a fair opportunity to my genius for settling difficulties." "Well, then. I am pretty nearly smothered in thanks, and all for nothing," returned the woman, with a sense of humor in her tone. "I thank you all back again, and hope that will settle all occasion for compliment*."

Who was your husband, them asked Robert, curiously. His name was Robert Wllmef. His father was James Wlimcr of Wilmington. He ran away Irom me while the war was going on, and I have not wien him since. And small loss either," ahe continued* parenthetically, "for he waa very little use to me or himself, or anybody else and It I have got Into away of calling nim my Robert, it hi not because worry about him.n "He Is a connection of mlae,theti, which may account for the likeness. James Wilmer was a first cousin of my father but the families not keepup thi acquaintance, and I did not even know there was a son Robert." "There was then," she replied,, "as I've got good reason to know. But I can tell you thU, that you are not him, and that I am about aa well satisfied tiai ain't."

He laughed aa ooly those who win afford to laugh, turnlng wHh a glad look to her who stood beside him, with her eyes fixed warmly opoti Ms faoS "STus so, Mrs. Wilmer?" «tfd

Let us

when 1 met one who taught lAtM." meaning of the word love.

Leaning upon the .tombstone first wits, she tookiwl up Into bis tee, the warm glow woifoaed ber wholo

eould have en the

the two.

Only the meaaory of that former llfo a&4 the respect due ifa^dead,

Lauta. "I ant sorry to have given you Co much trouble." it's no trouble st aHi 1 am for the trip- Good-bye, Miss It ami Mr. Wllmef, I am gladlMfto bo in your wav, as yea supposed but I am a little afraid that I am Ju* now lit your way In another fhahion, so I will he oft"

And with an odd little laugh, she trotted down thespatfi after berckMTeae.

wittaht their dlr^e^of^ristomliMttnctlvsly hiahandsought hew, Kve^jre* tige of their oldllfoof sorrow and wflferIng foil behind tham, a* ]m yearti ufm flui item the eak when a new Jpringbputltog forth ita greenAUage --when ftey turned away from the

of his dead wife and walked forth to the warm sunshine of tew. Sot» word waa spolum. Down the shining avaaua, on whlak the leafleas bouglw threw ne shadow, they slowly trod, band clasped in band, while the invisible but strong cords of affection reached across the aiieuca that lay between them, binding their two beam laid ooe. On the edge of the lofty river-bank a seat stood invitingly, overlooking the bright rippling waters that ran beneath, and the sunny landscape beyond.

Here they seated themselves, still in silence, as It each feared that one word -1 break the spoken might shining vision of happiness that possessed than, as a bbfe will break toe glow!

pebble will break the glowing smoothnew of a lake in to trembling ripples. There are alienees more woquent than speech. Love stretches across vofeeleas intervals, and lifts twin souls above the disquieting influence of werda. CJolden Uttf lence, which human souls oemp* In the language of tho angel*, that deep communion of kindred natures so infinitely more expressive than moral tones. But thought in man Istoobmy for emotion to Jong hold individual sway. Hopes, doubts, and fob lies'press tTofiiiss and the broad lake of feeling Is troubled vlth endless that break the great shining sun ripples, of love Into countless fragmentary a

Their faces approached their lips {cined in love's clinging kiss and at once their emotional exaltation fell to a lower leveL True love in a trinity—an intimate combination of the physical, intellectual and spiritual, and only that affection in which these three constituents are actively engaged deserve® the exalted luuneer love. Physical attraction draws man and woman together by the lowest clement of their natpj^. Time weakens Its attractive force, a they who have been linked by pasedo fiery bonds fall asunder as passion wanes. Intellectual sympathy is a higher component of affection. It Is love's cool, quiet, slow-growing phase. But all plants of slow growth are solid in texture, and where twin minds are enthey clfng with leas fire but far more endurance than the vigorous but transient attraction of the body. Yet only where a true spiritual affinity obtains is love's highest constituent present. Two souls become one. and that affection is instituted which reaches across the limits of the grave, and links immortal souls throughout eternity.

This was the nature of tho love that drew together the two persons whom we have traced through so long a round of suffering. We have seen them absorbed in the silent communion of kindred souls. We have seen the physical nature asserting Itself in the ardent meeting of the lips. It needed but the unfolding of intellectual sympathy in words to establish the trinity of attraction that bound their souls into the grand unity of love's true ideal.

Am I forgiven, Robert?" she softly asked, her voice full of its long-repress-ed tenderness.

Forgiven!" he warmly repeated, his arm stealing round her waist, "^ou are being forgiven, and it is such a delightful sensation that I would like to have it endure for the next year."

Hush, sir, or I will not forgive you. I have treasured up derelictions of yours enough to offeet all my faults." "Please do tell me some of them?" ho asked, smiling at her atfocted e^oestness.

You laughed at me when was fast in tho briars," she stfid, with a merry glance.

Aud you laughed at me when I was In the mud," he replied. "But 1 have vou faster now, darling, than the briars ever had. Who coula have dreamed then that this moment would ever have come?"

I did," she softly answered, a warm color flushing her face. "I have treasured a momento af that most fortunate moment of our lives through all that has fallen upon us since."

Sho drew from her pocket a small book, which she carefull opened, and there, upon an amber-colored page, lav a pressed water-lily, carefully preserved in all Its snowy whiteness.

This is tho lily you gathered for me, dear Robert. My soul went out to you at that moment. Not for one instant have I ceased to love you, with a devotion typified by the purity of this flower. ,, ... "My own pure, whtto water-lily," he cried, drawing ber to him in a close embrace, and ardently kissing the red lips that had made so sweet an avowal. "You have kept inviolate there the emblem of your own souL Had you but mingled the red rose of strength with the lily of abnegation, they would have formed the true type of the rarest soul that ever Informed a human frame."

What further passed in this royalest moment of two lives that had gone through the fire of martyrdom Into the empire oflove,is not for us to put inwords. There are passages in all lives too sacred for disclosure to the world—Interludes In the dull play of human life on which the curtain of silence must descend on which the actors alone are privileged to rase. The story of "Love's Young Dream" is one of these plays between the acts, which no audience to permitted to behold, but which the curtain Is rung resolutely down.

tng resolutely down. An hour had passed before the merry voice of Laura was heard startling them into an earnest observation of the river, that rolled onward It* dear waters far

^"lis thero any room hero for a third party?" she roguishly ssk&d. "I am a walking encyclopedia of the cemetery. I put my charge in a Ridge Avenue car, and since then have been amusing myself with the doleful occupation of reading tombstone literature. 1 don't believe I have had half as good a time as you have been enjoying." ..

They ro»e to meet hef vrlth fin guilty o? ill tho good Uuw ahe had moused them of, 1 will have my kiss In advance, iedt, "for some Iwartypereon rob mo of *ay Atit claim on the

ling-day." I she kepi

And she kept her word kissing them oo

with Interest

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As tor her father, he partly recovered from his hurt, but bis brain was somewhat affected by the fall, and be became a quiet, inoffensive old gentleman, his memory in great part tort, and with it much yf his thirst for liqdor. They had no great difficulty in dissuading him from the deadly draught, which had made his Ufa so long a cures to himself and all around him. After a year or two he quietly died, mourned more deeply by his daughter than ahe had drearned site could ever grieve for him. Over our story, as over his lift*, let us write WW is.

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Perhaps the most curious specimen of this class of dreams that ever cauie under our notico w«us this one. The subject

nlngslo the class roouu To allow time for study he rose early aud relired late, never wasted a moment, denied himself everything In the shape of recreation^ and with the exception of bis walks between the school-room and bia place of business, took no exercise. The classes he attended were formed in great pert of adults, all of whom had much more leisure than himself, aud most of whom were merely renewing their acquaintance with former reading yet the boy managed to keep abreast of the very be*t or his classmates. Of course such exertions could not be made by a mere child with impunity. After six or seven months of them he became subject to a singular malad v. He never left his books so long as bis eyes would keep open. When they refused to labor longer he retired—to fall at once into a heavy sleep. From this, however, he was sure to start in half an hour or there* abouts, under the Influence of nightmare which compelled him to recite aloud every word of the lessons of the day. The thing was most painful, but there was no escape from it. Once in the grip of the tormenting fiend, ke was constrained to go on repeating declensions, conjugations, trigonometric formula?, ana so on, to the very last syllable. Then the fit left him to a disturbed and unrefreshlng slumber. There was no remedy for the disease save discontinuance of study, and to this the boy would not consent—even though this most reand raion. At ength be"was favored with a Strang* dream. A face seemed to bend over 1dm—one that he had never seen before^ but whose features remained over afterward fixed In bis memory. In the decline of life, he used to tell a most Interesting story of his meeting with that face twenty-four years later, and of tho decisive influence which its owner exercise over his destiny. This face he described as beautiful, spoke in tones delightfully sweet, to this effect: "If somebody will watch by your bed, aud when the nightmare seizes you, recite a certain passage" (which we shall specify to yon presently) "you will be set free to sleep In peace." It was not until tbq dream recurred more than once that tho dreamer ventured to mention it. It waa laughed at by all, save an elder sister who made up her mind to give a fair trial to the remedy so curiously suggested. She did so when her brother was* next undergoing his torture. Hardly had she begun to speak than he cesaed to go over his lessons and taking up tho passage after her he went through to tho end quite voluntarily as before, but very aifferently, with an ease and com-, fort perfectly Indescribable. When tho recitation was over he sunk Into a calm and and refreshing sleep. The experiment was repeated night after night, and always with still more satisfactory results than before. By degrees tho pest relaxed its grasp, and in nine or ten days vanished forever. The passage employed was the "Lord's Prayer."—(Cornhlll Magazine.

WHO SHALL MAKE THE FIRE. A correspondent of the Herald of Health asks If her husband ought not to get up to make the fire, and that journal replies:

Yes, he ought tomtieas there are rea-*, you have not given. The follow* Ing story may help a little: A man In Maine refused to get up and build a fire, and his wife said sho shouldn't and so thev remained In bed thirty-seven hours before It was settled. Onr sympathies are, of couree, with the woman, and wo may be permitted to entertain a regret that it did not occur to her to perform a great deal of self-sacrifice upon tbia occasion. How nobieandbeautifol would have been the example set her husband, now touchingly would she have shown her wifely devotion, how keenly would ahe have made him foel Ms meanness if she had risen we, say, and made afire under the bed, in order to route him out all of a sudden. A woman who throws away such a chance as that to false to her duty and to her sex.

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