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LOVE'S TRJUMPH.
A STORY OF LOVE ANA WAR.
BY MARY J. H-IOLMES.
Author of " Lena Rivers," "Edna Browning,"
"Tempest and Sunshine," Etc., Etc,
riwr.+bC' a Qsdi,.
asimmommtigams
)les, Baker's, doing nlore by her cites.
ful presence and the needful comfortq
'sbe whiled to arrest the progress of
Ilse disease and effect at favorable
change, than all the physician's he the
septnty could have e
o 5.
. Bill owed his
Me to her, and it \rats touching to ,wit-
; ness his childish gratitude* when rel.
'son resumed bee throne, and he had
eleaenee who it was he had sometimes
,celled his "little rebel," and again had
fn:ncied was some beautiful angel sent
to cure and comfort him. IIe lend often
seen i%irs, Mather in the streets before
she went array; but never as closely as
i new, and for hours after his couvelee.
;•cence he would lie looking into her We,
1 w11ich seemed •to ;mule him greatly.
I'Occasionally; too, he would tale from
bis pocket n picture, whichhe evident-
ly
compared with something about her
person, then, with a sly wins., which
began to be very arum:ying, be would
return it to its hiding -Otto, and ask her
sundry questions, which , under ordia-
Ary clreunitetanCeis, she would have re-
sented as being too. familiar.
' At list, one afternoon, as site was
sitting by him while has mother did
some erranlls in the village, he midden-
ly surprised her by dropping upon her
r lap an elegant gold watch, which. hose
. knew at a glance must have belonged
to some person of taste and wealth,
"What is it? Whose le it?" the ttek-
ed. and Bill replied: '
"'Twos ll:i n, the chap's 1 took,`ye'u
.know. Ile's down in the old Oapitoi
now, shot up. Didn't you never .tear
of hie;?"
"You mean the young man you cap-
tueed?" hose replied, "Tell lite about
s Irina, please. Who was the, and where
'wee his home?"
"You tell," Sill answered, with ane
of his peculiar winks. "?Ie gave it as
John .Brown; but a chap who know e
' him said •'twos sotnethhu' else. Ile
wasn't a rebel neither—that le, It wasn't
leis niter, for he came from Yankee
land."
"Ai traitor,'tlieu," Bose suggested, and
Bill replied:
"You needn't guess agin; and you and
.1 or'to be glace that no such truck be-
• longs to us."
• . Rose colored scarlet, but made no re-
sponse, for recreant Jimmie flashed
eteross her miud, and she shrank from
leaving even the vulgar Bill know how.
Intimately she was connected with a
traitor. Bill watched her 'nurrowiy,
surd thinking to himself:
"I'm on the right tract., I'll bet," he
,••Continued, "I hain't no relatiums in the
'Confederate army, I know, and I don't
.an amen b'lier-e you have."
No answer from Rose, . except a,
-heightened bloom upon her cheek, ,aid
' ler inquisitor went on:
"Have you any friends there?"
Rose could not tell a lie, end after e
moment's silence she stammered out:
"Please don't ask me. Oh, Jimmie;
Jimmie, I wish I knew where he was!"
-and the great tears trte'leled through
`
the snowy fitters clasped over her
flushed face.
"I'll be darned if I ain't eryin' too,"
13i11 said, wiping his eyes with hie, shirt
:sleeve, "but bele' I'm in for it I may
as well see it through."
"What might be your name before it
was Miss Mau-thers?" .
"Carleton!" and hose looked ills quick
ly at 13111, Who. continued: •
"You came from Boston, I b'lie're?
' ' "Yes, front Boston," and Rose seine/
eagerly forward While Bi11, with his fa-
vorite "Nutt' said," plunged his hand
into his pocket, and taking out the pie
tore passed it to Rose. •
()nick as thought the bright color fad,
ed from her cheeks, and with ashen,
quivering lilts, she whispered:
"It's I! It's mine, i'aken for Jimmie,
just before he went away! Ilow came
yoti by it? Oh, tell vie!" and in the
/ *voice there was a stone of increasing
! anguish, "Tell 500, was it,—was it,—
Jimmie, my brother,whom you took pri-
t oner, and carried to Washington?"
"If Sautes Carleton a8 your brother,
I s'pose it erns," Bili said; "and. that's
the very Pieter he stuck to like a chest-
nut burr, begging for it like at dog, and
offerUt everythtn he had if I'd give it
tip."
"Why didn't you, then?" and Ruse's
eye iblazed with anger, making. Bill
sbt'ink before their indignant gaze.
"'Twits rotten mean in me, I know,"
y
i , "but he said timidl "bthat w cote -un-
bend
band according to law, and I felt so
savage at the pesky rebels then. 1 did-
n't know 'twos e''ou he teesecl'•so for, ac-
tmtlly eryin' when I. wouldn't give it up.
I'nn sorry, I be, I swan, end I'll give
You every 'confounded cant
rnbanl
.
lrott've got the watch, and there's the
ring, the spectacles, the tobarker-box,
end the, tthingumbolt for cigars, the saris
total of his traps, except n chow or so
sof the weed. that I co i1dn't very well
bring baaek," and Bill's face wore a
very satisfied expression a8 he ]aid in
Reseal lap every article belonging to
tier brother.
•She knew now who the prisoner was
he whom +she had felt so etrebge an in-
eerest, It Was.'Jimm{e, and the Ms -
ter concerning
y Iris forte was Solved. IIe .
was a -captive at 1Vaibfiington, and her .
heart ached to Its very core es she
thought of both her bxotthets langnic4h-
Ing so many weary months in prison.
Very minutely she questioned till,
eliciting from hien little or nothing cons
eerning Jirnsnie'sa prevent condition. He
only knew that he was a. tonere tttill,
that he was represented as maintain.
Mg the ntmoet reserve, seldom epe.ik-
ing extent to nntener direct queetinnit,
end. that fie segued very unhappy.
"Poor boss he wants to come homer, 1
know," and hear sobbed' Woad sus she
thought how desolate asses !hosaae^stek !re
.,rets tree "I Garet5ttty arny longer to.
gtal.:.t r *l a stir tib bleeletal Ilitee. Bee
• THE' WOIGHAldI
re 1 at tee door, and Matting hill good-
bye. Alin bitrried home, where, after a
long, passionate flood• of tears, wept in
Annie's Ing, she wrote to her mother
end husband both, telling these where
Jit1
u core was, as r>
,and 1 c gl;iug of the former
to come at once and go with her to
Washington.
CHAPTER, XTI.
That night, as Rose sat alone in, her
cheerful boudoir, musing upon the
etrnngo sweets which had oeenrrecl
within the last fele months, a letter
wv's brought to her, bearing her mo-
ther's handwriting. It had passed iters
on the road, and Wee tore It open,
atartin a soiled, ok.
s a e i 1
g tear -stained
note
dropped froatl the inside upon the floor.
Intuitively glee felt that it was. from
Jimmie, and, catching it up, she reed
the home -sick, heart-'{ek remorseful
sly- of penitence and eotttrition witielt
the weary rebel -boy had at last sent
to his mother. S•tubbornuess and proad
'reserve could hold ,ant ne longer, and
he hat" written, confessing his error,
and begging. earnestly for the forgiv e-
nees he kneli,lse did not deserve.
"I ani not all bad," he said; 'sand on
that quiet morning, when beneath the
Covering of the Virginia woods I lay;
watching the Union soldiers coring so
bravely on, there was a dizziness 111
my brain, and a strange, womanly feel-
ing at my heart, .while a sensation I
(ennot describe thrilled , every nerve
when I saw in the distance the Stites
and Stripes waving in fhe summer
wind. • How I wanted to warn them of
their danger, to bid thein turn, betel:
front the snare so cunningly devised,aad
how proud I felt of the Federal soldiers
when eoutrnstin g . with elms.- them wi pts.- I
fetncied X could tell which were the
Boston boys, and there came a mist be-
fore my eyes as I though !how. your
Clear blinds ands :those of little Rose had .
posisibly helped to make some . portion
et the dress they wore. '
"You know about the battle. You read
it ',months ago, and wept, pelt:seve as .
you thought of 7imin:ie.firing at, bis own
brother, it might be, but, another, I dict
not. I scarcely fired at • all, and when
I was compelled. Bled to i sus-
picion,
do so to avoid st
picion, it was so high that neither the
wounded nor the dead can feCuse roe
11s their murderer; and I'm glad now
that at is so. It makes my prison bed
softer to know there Is no' stain of
blood upon my soul.
•
"Poor Tour, I dare say, has written
to you of our encounter in the woods,
but he dares not know the shock it Was
to me to meet 'him'there, •and ]Cn',•w I
could not help him. Dear Tom, my
boort arches more for him than for my-
self;
yself; for the Richmond Prison Guards
are not like those who keep watch over
us. There are humane people there,—
kind, tender hearts.—which feel for any
one in distress, het the jailers, the com-
nton soldiers, nncl the rabble, are not,
I fear, as considerate as they might te.
;Many of them have been. made to be-
lieve the .war entirely of the North's
Provoking, that llt,ntlin is a mulatto,
and Lincoln a , foul -hearted) knave,
whose Whole aim is to set the negrocs
free.
But enough Southern t cno tar S nUhern of{fres,
g
f
It will all come clear at Lest, and the
Stare Spangled Banner wave again over
• every revolted state.
"Write to me, mother. Sag yon .for'
give yonr rebel -boy. Stay than, wheti I.
rim exchanged, as I hope to be,' I may
come home, and that you will not turn
away from your. sinful, erring
• "J1:111i1E.'
•
.'llhcre was a message of love for
Rose, and then the letter closed n'ith
tine hist touching entrcary that the mo-
ther would forgive her child and take
him back Again to her eoiilh1one. and
love:
"Of course she'll do it," Ro: e• e'aid
vehemently, and seizing It pen and pa-
per she wrote to will,, inelosing 'a note
to auntie, full of pardon and tender
love, bidding him, when he should be
released, come directly to Rockland,
where their mother Altonlcl be waiting
for him, and where she; forgetting all
the past, would nurse him back :to
htellth•
Nearly a week • went by,. and then
there came a letter from 'Will, telling
how he had visited the rebel Jimmie in
prison, and Rose wept friiiltically es
i:t1•r h' inter-
viewread the part rt t s of that Inter-
view when her brother first met fhe
sister's husband, of whom he had nev-
er heard.
-1 found him sitting apart from the
others," William wrote, "apparently
ab-
so.bed in disagreeable reflections, for. .
there was an nbstrneted look upon hie
face and deep wrinkles upon b s fore-
heed. If he had atot been pointed. mit
to me; I should have known him by his
` striking 'resemblance to your family.
The Carleton features could not be O Mis-
taken, 1 he metal),
particularly nbott t ,
I and the arching 'bf the eyebrows, while
I recognized ee once the soft, curling
hair and brilliant complexion, wihkli
nett will remember °tee attracted me
toward a certain little girl, who Is n
ew
all the world to the old bachelor Will.
"'But this isn't a love letter, dar-
ling. I'm only going to tell you how
worry your brother looked sitting there
ninety, in that noisy multitude, wh.me
Innen:we anti planners ire nit alio
nest relined that could be desired, mai
how my heart warmed toward the MOH -
111.7 behlg, niers fGrg^ave 111,311 at assns
for all his errors past. Very haughti-
ly be homed to true when I was intro.
do»ed, and then in 511rttcr atw•aitc'd to
,.tear my errand, the mond carve around
his month deepening 85 he surveyed me
with n llnntenr which, ander ordinary
tlrmtnstanecs, worth' have enmanyed sue
531-4 11•1111,41.". As it was, 1' ,;'otdd au*
fn, ig- itiss prisoner gigd .plit
'vee; C
,!'senile, he seeemt d we Dotal, so it:!al'loelt• i and nee hem nalleele_
eel, while 1 was t'tnixtrs5aaaral sod nowt' •Tmin't yen &leas Nall o, s1
certain how to set. hilt, tee, weans
ala ,�ilp�'-"�u.0 ' „'PL i'
'is. pair Oat prompted by e•ttriosi• "I'eerhspai se." wee ear eget mew"
't;• to free hew a su-callraj resod eon tut Mrs. Ca:rleten 1eookod upon the
beer ennfinnmc'1e(. or did 3-o u conte on 'entry Ilse eyes, steeteeg there xlsioaara
buloinea:s?' he asked, rand teen all my of a bandatrlmkg, laorl»b, tearful foal,
embarttteent •nt was at an end. unlined witfi e, h and entreaty as ita
"'I valise,' 1 rasa, 'partly At your ale owner btyrs•c•ti elf itar not to take him
tete request and pertly to ttset•rtala Leek to Berton. wh:ielt he lasted, but
how Intuit you are willing to do toward leave hint where he was, saying :shaft
the nttaiuutcnt of your fveeedoin. the little kt!r1 at the I'extuat 'House had
isI 'ally done ]tint more good than all
the scrmoue p'eaehei1 from than pulpit
I of the Bay Stets capital.
'But sis a bac. disregarded Jimnate's
! w•'iebes, and from th'nt tam's forward re
had strewn a coulees of recklessness
ending; et last in prison, *%'itlt it half,
regretful sigh Mrs, Cerlc'tou thought of
all this, .and in her heart she blamed
herself for sante of her boy's disobedi.
epee. But it could not now he helped,
npd.1l another- gwith noth r si h, *she turned to.
wars" Rose, still speculating as to what
the result might have 'been had ,lint-
m.le been 'suffered. to fallow up his first,
and, se far as Abe knew, only fancy.
"What do you *tappet* would have
heppened if Jim'snie, lend stayed in New
Laudom and this sehe•ming aunt, whops
sncther feared far more than the Pe-
quot, haul stayed there, too?" she asked
of Annie,; forgetting that etbe lanrtiett-
Iars or the affair had not been tepe:ated.
tut it did not spatter, for Annie an-
e
.'•, i
sticud all the mune. She was sitting
naw with her back. to' Mrs. Carleton,
while, so far as Rose was concerned,
1.er flee was in the shadow. Copse=
nuently Rose could not see its expres-
"I do ret think he s'nderstooil the
last. He elute caught at the words
`your Meter,' and, grasping. my arm, be
whispered ]teat:ea'ly, aid's:at of my sis-
ter?' Hare you seen her? Do you know
her, and does she hate ante now?'
"I told him I was ymu, husband,and
with quivering lilt, he atskcil ale, • 'is
site well, my precious nose, whom 1
remembered as niut'at a child, and nso-
ther•-haal she east int off? Oh, if site
only ]anew how I ate for k )unis11oil o • t 1.y.
sin, she would forgive .ser wayward
boy.,
"here he broke down In such as wild
stpini of soils and renes that the In-
mates of the prison gathered in groups
arotuul flim, their looks indicative of
their sunprise at Witnessing so' concis
emotion fu one who up to Mat moment
hen oppeared haughtily indifferent to
everything around him. %Vitis 813' csu-
tllnritntive gesture he waved therm: off,
and then, passing him your note, I too,
walked away, leaving him alone while
1t let r
r tel it,bat r
a let w•ltere I stood I
could heir the mothered sobs he tried
in vain to suppress. ' I min inclined to
think he is right in saying that join-
ing the Confederate army was the best
lc, -sou he ever 'gamed. ' I am sure he
must be greatly changed from the reck-
less, daring Ivey, whose exploits you
have described ee often. IIe is very
anxious to swear allegiance to the Stars
and Stripes, even through he should be
doomed to prison life for five more
wanry months, and, as I am not a mete
private now, and hive eonsiclerable in-
fluence in Fnshiegtou, I hope, ere leng,
to write that he is free, and on his ivay
to Rockland, whither he will go first,
"Jimmie expresses the utetneet sympa-
thy for Tom, and says he- would glad-
ly •take his place, If that could be, for
he fears the inmates ,of those Iilehmond
tobacco houses are' not atlwaei cared
for, as he has ' been at Washington.
Poor Tom, I,fiope be will be anettg the
1:cat of the exchanged, and, it so, you
may espeot soon to welcome both Sour
brothers."
"
.NO wonder hose wept, tears or spy
over this kilter, while her thoughts
went after her rebellious,- but' :repeat -
ant brother, nor tarried there, for far-
ther to the South, smother weary cap-
tive pined, and every fibre of bee heart
bled with sympathy for. Tose—poor
Tein, she always celled hhn-lend es the
&tee 01! sickening. suspense n-ent.by she
grew so nertouss and so i11 that her nto-
tker• came up from; Boston to attend
her, whale Annie sliool:.off her -own
�n
feelings of weary languor, and did for
Rose the same offices which Rose had
epee done for her.
"I do 'so wish you led been my sis-
ter," .Rose said to her one day, when
she had been kinder than rental. "I
know I should be .a better woman, and
so would all of us."
Annie trade' no reply, except to
twine around her fingers the coals of
chestnut Chair, lying in sueli profusion
upon the pillows. For a. fe'w moments
Rose lay perfectly atilt, with her eyes
fixed upon the• paper .bordering. as , if
counting the fanciful flowers, but her
thoughts were intent upon a far differ-
ent subject. Turning to her mother,
she suddenly asked:
"How old is Jiniauie, twenty-three or
• twienity-four?"
• "Twenty=throe last: Alay," was the re-
ply, and, with rather a troubled ex-
pression upon her face, Rose continu-
ed, "Will is thirteen years older than
Iam, and thelittle curlyheedsrosic
- doubtfully.
• "What are you talking about?" Mrs.
Carleton asked,. but Rose did not nn-
swer at once. ,
There was another interval of silence,
and then, 'starting tip quiekly, Iln•ie
tilled otuit, "Mother, don't you remem-
ber that affair of Jimmie's ever so lone
ago, a -hen he was a boy et school in
• New London?" • There was a little girl
that he fancied, and you took him house
• for fear of what would come of it;
when you found she -awls poor and nu-
- body?"
Sian es she replied: ,.
"Nothing probably would have come
of it, I imagine the Pequot, as you
call her, was not more than fourteen,
and•yott know how easily we forget the
frncies of that age. She was undoubt-
edly pleased with the evident admire -
tion of your handsome brother,and
wntehed anxiously, it may be, for tIle
evenings when, with others of his cora-
miles, be came to the hotel; but a clos-
er acquaintance would have resulted in
her knowing the deception. about the
rime, and atter ' that she would .not.
'lave cared' for him. If he really tilted
her he would not have imposed upon
her thus. She's forgotten him ere this,
end le probably a married .woman."
"Perhaps so," Rose replied; "I wish
I knew. Jihmie didn't mean to deceive
her long. ' He took ,the name Dick Lee
1artly in sport nnd
partly
because
he
didn't wish his teacher to know holy
often Jim Carleton wits 41 the I'equot
Rouse when he thought hint some-
where else. After he began to like her,
orad saw how pure and good and truth-
ful ;she was, he hated to tell her, but
had made up his mind to do so' when
mother took him away,"
"He might have written," Annie said,
"and she may have been silly eneugle a
to cry over his abrupt sgsd upexlilaine 1
departure,"
"\[other wouldn't let him write,"
Bose rejoined, laughingly. She watch-
ed hint closely, and got Tont iuterestcd
too. Poor Jimmie, I' wonder . if that
girl ever thinks of him now?"
15She may. but . I dare say: she is
glad your mother took him homeShe
outlived all, that fancy," and An- t
pie's whitte fingers, on one of which i
Ate i edding-ringwas shining worked 1$
nervously together.
As if bent on tormenting both her au-
ditors by talking of Jimmie, Rose kept
on, w-onderIng how he .looked, if . s'he
should know hint, what he would say,
how he would act, and if he ever would
est
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mew Beesl irs atm ave td>t `
Widow Pirmare bas *keel SOW ter
Jeha'a Aga. genii
ghee Willa Wit eats
len with howl"
1"
u-klety dose not aw carr
testod, her bewaa't be-
syatw-btbsataudluggr her
lave with her a
time little teient;
to hale threw lwe
"You forget tb
*eau," Anile inn.
ginning to oink,4
playful words.
"Yes, 1 lava,
you are not slot tJ,' there. If you are in
the way here with Jiuumte, you'd surely
Ito more in the ashy there witia, 'setae,
Don't you see?" and Rune looked as if
this argument li•ere altogether conelu-
give,
a'I can go Wine," Ander said, faint-
ly.' "The veva* is mine till the first
of April." ;.
Rose Colored a d hesitated sontextbnt.
as if a little is •ertaiu how what she
as
h tosayon 1
t set subject c � to" t 't
might e
a >; 1 .
ceivod.; then, resolving to put a bobs
face upon it, fall, said:
" 1 ostg ht eo h, .vee told you before, I
eel love Don't e »
Ian a •
on pd t s5. tel 1,e•
n n i day
1
t av
you bed the eae11 bcsadnellc', snore than
a week ago?' Well, •wl'tile you were
13 515.1.1), •a man 5.1111P to sanely if you'll
let him into the„emttage till spring, as
he was obliged ter 1em•e where be 11518,
and could find nor other place. I did not
wish to wake you. 111131 as I knew you
would. nut care. 1 said yew on my ,awn
respel:ribi1!ts-, and sent Bridget down
to pack all your things in the chamber;
as .he only wautecl Val. lower Toot'xs.
She put them aft ay real carefnlle•,
Bridget did, for s 've been myself to
rel, hose added quieklt. 'i she saw
the color s{xounth to Annie's cfieeks,
a feared she i^
and ear a ht be indignant 1 d „ d n
nn t
g t a
the liberty,
"And is he 'there'?” Arnie asked; con-
quering all .emotion, and Revolting in
Ler natuluti tone. f
"Yes, ho's there," •Rose answered.
"You ere not ;tribe-, are you? Heats n
ftr
Itose replied; "bet
,111.••1,
u;.•
da
e,is u
t, ..
nos la ]WAN
hers arils< 11140.0
Anetie's week. "Auer new
with .trot, til=t° }vent eels ea helms
Our, to gm; 4e41't lairs, abartiusq
itd;u aelaettled tv )lits. iderie'kitt,
j salt 1501115 iva.
"ter comae Aire. (li'ssiarnsartll
1'a1s 415. Oarlete i r melee 'tom 63
the days u4! leer su Mien at Bee
sbe held bet'ome interested in tbi5
a•auUag Auaue. and already foresaw
1.1m'fit she tvnt11Q 155. to Dose, w jo' •n4:
1.11 adonis moll fulinc•uce to keep her iite
check.
hirer. Carleton leas jnvuel. and at tree
her (laughter'sgr t.is
K
intimace
with-
tile
wife of a jit.'1•it:.nii• had given hes
pride a pant;, lent tr (-loser etea slut:tars
had dispelled the feoIish prejudice, for
oho saw in -she gentle Alegi. unnliet 3k1
able nutrias of t'ihtcat!.,it 111111 rc'fineunent,.
while site wee net insensible to th+t,
e,i'arin thi'ow•tt rc.'xstl ' tlu ix'uutlful
stringer 1)y the lovely Christina :AAP-
doter whit et shone too brightly now ,ire
the dark hour of iaflliteio i. ('omitse
hearer to her, and laying her 11111.1 ire
•
as motherly xray 1111nn her site browse
Lair, she said:
Ise all 1t.trt,, yen, :sirs. Graham, an4
its Rom, by en net width .1 will admit
vets too 1pris:eae n , int3 viitmthly elosatl..
your owns hunts against you, 1 see no
alternative but f5. r ;rest: to ntay with us.
Rose needs ;•c u, and as 31he says, you
may do .rheask' peel. d. et h{le Tom, if he
ever contree,w•ill be gists to meet the wife
of one tit wham he was greatly Inter-
ested."
After this, Annie offered no further
frees<,r.i'ttanee, though in ltcr heart she
imp: d ,linmiQ s residence in Roe1ci ted
11-1: tt'-d 1.i.: 1:0 1,'r: loner. Of Tom stet
scene. •
"I'm so glad you are stere, Annie,"
she said, "for you do everybody good
you come in contact with, and I want
ycu talk to'•Jimmie, will you?"
Annie only smiled, but her eheeics
burned with excitement; and Rose '{vas
about asking if her bend didn't ache,
when a letter • users brought in bearing
the Washington postmark'. 1 ageriy
Bose broke it open, screaming with joy
as she read that Jimmie had been re-
leased,—had taken the oath of aJlegi-
ancr, and was cowing house to Reek-
laund. .
"He'll be he re ,.—let mo see,—Th•trs-
dity, on the three o'clock train. 'That's
to -morrow. Oh I'm so elect" and in
her delight the little Indy forgot -Ma
for the last week she had been play-
ing sick; and, 1 aping upon the ciuepet,
danced about te room, kissing alte.r-
nclteiy her ntotl r and Annie, Land osk-
ee e
h
ie
Glancing quickly ate Annie; w•ho w its - ing if' they were ever so pleased in their
attentively examining the.lte'nlStitch of lives.
the fine linen piliow-case, Mis. Carle Oh, I forgot!" she suddenly exclaim -
ton said, reprovinglyed, as she saw the great tears dropping
"Yon should not parade our, family
matters before etriusgers, my d'uugjt-
ter."
"Oh, Annie is no stranger," Rose an-
swerecl, lau*hi uaie. "S,he's one of our
from. Annie's.et•es, and guessed of what
ate was thinking. "X did not mean to
make you sorry e contrestinn ,Jiinmicde
coming haine with that of poor George
y,"
Dear Annie, don't et -y; and the
chub -
folks now; besides, she is not ennt'g l? by arms closed.caaxiugly rotund the now
interested in the love affair of it seven:
'sobbing Annie's neck. "Don't cry.
teen-year-el'd boy ever to repeat it." 3'on11 slice Jimmie, I know, and if you
"Love ttifitir!" Mrs. Carleton rejoin- dont, I know you'll like- deter Tont.
• ed, a little scornfully."Not very much Ht's perteetly+ splendid, and he gave his
love about it, I imagine. She was stop place to George, yeti know,"
ping with her aunt et the Pequot tIoase • Yes, Annie knew, but it only made
and Jimmie sew. her nfew times, pass- her teens fiow faster as she thought of
irg himself off by another none than Rose,. so full of hope, her husband yet
• his own. If he had cared for this child olive, and het brothers coming home,
he would never have done that." while she, without a friend on whom
"He seems to lhiwe a penchant for she could lean, woe alone fit her deco-
nisuning names," 'lose rejoined, play- • late widowhood. Excusing herself from
ftt1 ]l•."iecalled himself joint Drools n she sought her own p
lca"tt
t
at 'Wnahiugton, while to: this little X'e- chamber, and there alone poured out
her grief into the our of One who al,
most since she could remember haat
been tite recipient of nil heti s°•r.w e,
And Annie had far more !teed of 'help
then Ruse� suspected. ectcd .1o cattld
net
stay there incl meet atomic Carleton
recti to face` atter whet •s1te, had heard,
while a return, to .the lonely. cottage
gnat girl he Was, let nee Bee, what, tvus
it? Caal't you think, mother?" •
' Itose w.ns bent on tnikitig about Jirn-
. ink and his Pequot girl, and, knowing
She± could
not stop h5.rr, its
Carletonnon
replied:
"Mallard Tree, or something like
that."
"Olt, yea, 'Dick!' I remember now; seemed impossible. Widow Strums's
and her name was,--whitt was it, sno- '.tome sttggtseted itself to her mind; but
they? It Metre my head aehe so try« if the prisoners were estlrnnged, anal
• Isaac cane home 13 h5 might be an M-
ing to Meal'' it. >
"If I ever knew, I've forgotten," Mrs. trader there, -and, besides, What truth -
Carleton sa{d, And, after trying in vain fid reitaott eaatld she hive to ltose for
to
,think, hose tlisnnitteed' the name, but • her Strange conduct? It was a sad till.
not site Subject, (mum 1v]iieb Annie remit' herself so
"IIow angry Jimmie ens,,, she ten. • suddenly Placed, and macre than van, hour
" t brought kite. ]tames et Solitary and
prayerful roderta,'n
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