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LOVE'S TRIUMPH. 2
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4 STORY OF LOY1 ANL) WAR. 1
BY MARY J, HOLMES,
Author. of " Lena Rivers," "Edna, Browning,"
"Tempest and Sunshine," Etc. Etc,
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the servant bud neglected to simply the
rnek with towtis, niel so she hail
brought them herself,. lingering a mo-
ment after they were arranged, to 1411
everything wore in order. tche die
• net hoer Tillers step until he opuue1
the door upou her. and ulteeed en ex-
' clamation or etirprise unit apbiogy,
bad no idea who tho little Week-rat:et
. t
It wus. strange how differently Jim
-
eine felt after this incident, nail how
east hie spirits. rose. The few e eras
.salt1 to him by Annie up in his sis.tor's
•eupola had made him very happy, for
he felt that a better understandiug ex-
isted between himself and Annie, that
she (nu not so theroughly desplee bint
els lie had at first supposed, and that
rthe whining her respect was uot a hope -
loss task.
'As early fts two the crowd begen to
,gather in the streets, maid half en hour
later Rose's carriage, with Minnie iu it,
woe on its way to the depot. ?sirs.
Carleton did not are to go, nee Ao
Itose, too, remained tit home, and,
inciusting to the cupola, watehel toe the
firtst. Wreath Of smoke which shoted
hethin the approach of the tutu.
"I see it—he's coming!" she sereaur
ad, us a feathery mist was discernale
'over the -distant p1iiu, ond in a few
moments more the cars wept round
•Ilie curve, while a booming gun told
that Bill Batter was faitheul to his
duty. '
There was n swaying' to andfro of
the throng at the depot, a pieshieg emit
;ether aside, a trilling of fife, tt beating
of drums, and then a ..deafeuing shoat
went up as Tom Carleton and Sohn
•Sintins appeared upon the plotfonn,
earefully smiporting the tottering steps
of the weak, excited boy, who stood 1 e-
tween them. At sight of Isaac there
'was a momentary hub, and then with
a shriek sneh as a epeesmight give
seam it saw its young hi dungen rhe
Widow Simms rushed frantically for-
ward, and catching the light total of
her child In her arm, tried to be tr 1 im
through the orowd, but hes: stringth
was ineuMcient, and she would have
fallen had not Jimmie relieved her of
her burden, which he susetined with
sme hand, while the -other was extend-
ed to welcome the stranger who came
near..•
Half bewildered, Tom looked ground
upon the multitude, asking in a whiz -
Per what it meant. He could not
think that they hod come to welcome
,and when fissured by Jimmie that
such was the fact, his lips quivered for •
an instant, and his tongue refused its
effieceTlion„ in a few w.eil-chosen orris.
he thanked the people for the wide -
served surprile, so far as he was him-
self concerned. Isaac was mote worthy
of .such welcome, he gaud, and more
than half of it was metnt, he ktee,
for their townemon, who had shown
hithself equally brave in cavils in hat-
• tle and -ie prieoe, .while, had they known
that Lieutenant Simons, too, was cone
• big, le Svat'S sure they wattle eot -hese
thought of him a stranger them all-
,
• The brief speech ended, and nose,
listening at home, clopped her bands in
• eel:easy She heard the territio cl eeen
• and caught the mime •of "Carleton"
Mingled with :Isaac Simms."
••"Poor bey!" she said, "I wonder how
he'll get hone! •I wish I had told ;Tins-
mith to drive that nay, and take him in
the carriage."...
She need hive given herself no me
-easiness, for what ehe kind forgorton
was remembered by Jimmie, who, sfter
-10, hurried cansultation with Tom, in
-
misted that both Isaac and his blether
eb,ould take slate in the carriage, while
lie and Tem mingled with the crowd:
"And slew ether son, there's room for
'him," he saki, looking round In quest
'of John, who, et the last moment hod
obtained permission' to visit hie bride,
'and so came on. with Isaac. -
At a glance his eye •had singled out
S.us,en, and the young (allele were now
standing apart from the rest; exchang.
• leg mutual caresses and words of love,
the tell lieutenant kissing fondly the
blushing girl, who could not realize
eha she stood in the presence of her
heists:inch Alter a little itneas deeided
that Tom and Jimmie, iIrs. Simms end
Isaac, should esoupy the carriage,
• while John :Ind Soiree walked, and so,
• front her lofty etandpoint, Itnee .watch.
ed. the long procession winding dowit
the streets, amid the strains of music
Mud the cannon's bellowing roar. It
Mas'very ereiting to Isaac, and by the
time the Cottage was reached ho WOO
• dad to be lifted out by ;Jimmie, who
bore the tired boy tenderly 'into the
• house and Itild himedown on the .soft,
warm bed ht. bald dreamed about so
many nights- in the dark, filthy prism
come How Wet and weak he was,
and how glad to be home ;mein! Wind-
ing his atme nround his mother's neek,
he sobbe..1 out his greet joy,snying amid
his tears, "(MCI W118 SO killa to let me
• come back to; you."
it was ft 1,-ery happy gtoup the yil-
Ittgers kft bailed in that humble cot-
tege, and neither John net. Sisal
thoaght it out of place when the mos
titer 01,110(1 on them to Icnt•el with her
and thank the Giver of all good. for
Ilie great „mercy in granting them this
blessing.
• • Meantime the precession plissed 011
Until it. reached the Ai -other maesion,
Where, :with three cheers for Cantein
Carleton, the crowd dispersed, lonving
Wont at liberty to join the mother mul
Plater waiting so impatiently for hint,
000 011 the steps and the other in the,
Pallor. jest Where she had welcomed
jimmle.
"If Will were only here, it Would be
the happiest Alay I ever knew," nose
+saki, as, sooting hemelf Tom's knee,
With her eltubby nrin around hies neek,
etie asked him numerous qUe•itions eln-
terning her absent husband. Then, nes
she saw in him signs of wmiitimA, she
WM/ "Yoe me 1
sums. elm -
pose you go to yone mom, till dinner-
time. It's the sine right at the hem, of
the stairs," she etnitinuNI, tbj, glad of
sin opportunity to rest, Tom went to the
torn' where Annie 14calnitts Pot Then
lammed to be. She bad, d'oriovered that
•
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I
• figilre WaR, for though he knew ty
wile of 'George •Gralunn mots an 'must e
of itis sister's fondly, lie had her heltis
need as a very different person. from
this one Mere Alm. Graham was
young, he supposed, and possibly good-
looking, bat. she did hot bear the einem
of refinement and elegance which this
graceful creature did, and Tam-vil; he.
hticl.1eade, a mistake and stumbleI he
to the apartment of some city visitor,
wails about to withdraw, when Amite
eame toward him saying:
"Excuse me, sir, 1 tonne in to ser that
all was right in' your room. hin, Carie -
tom I presume?" •
• This last Annie spoke doubtiagly, for,
in the tall, handsome strait:or teem
her there was scarcely a vestige of the
• "gtayish-haired, oldish, fatherly look-
• ing men" she had in Toney known as
Captain Cerloton, and but for the eyes,
so much like Mrs, Mather's, and the on -
mistakable Carleton curve about the
mouth, she would never have dreented
• that it was Tom to whom she was
epoakiug. As it wcts, she' waited for
him to confirm her suspielons, width
he did by bowing in the affirmative to
her interrogation, "Mr. Chrleton, pre -
100141?"
• Then holding the door for her to pass
out, lie stood watching her till Pho- 618 -
appeared at the extreme •end. of the
• hall, wondering who she was, end why
a mere visitor abated take so math in-
terest in his room. Once he thought of
Annie Graham; but this could not be a
widow, though the deep meurning dress
told mf recent bereavement. Still, Ate
'-uie Graham was a different personoge,
lie knew; and thus perplexed, Tom, lu-
steed of resting, commenced hie toilet
for dinner, determining, soon as it
• was completed, ,to go down and h,tre
the _mystery unravelled.
Restices and impatient to know just
what his brother thought of his late
treachery to the Federal Flag, Jinintio
paced the parlor below until he could
wait no longer, and knowin -
sounds which came, from the chamber
• above that Tom was not trying to
• sleep, he finally ran up the stales, tine,
knocking at the chamber door, was
soon closeted with Tom. It was an awk-
ward business to speak of the post, loft
Jimmie plunged into it 'at once, stat-
ing scene reasons. •whieir had led him
to abjure his own Government expres-
sing his eontrition for haying done so,
and ending by saying he hoped Tom, if
possible, would forget that he ever had
-a rebel brother.
It hod taken Tom a long time to
recover from the shock of meeting his
brother in the Virginia woods, and
knowing he was a traitor to his countey,
• but the tonne generous feeling' which
led him to refrain from any allusion to
that meeting in the messages sent to lis
mother and sister from his Richmond
mison, now prompted him to treat with
leed forbearance the brother whom he
• had loved and grieved oveir since the
days of his mischievous boyhood.
"I should have found it very hard to
forgive you if you had stayed in the
Southern army," he said, "but as it is
we will never mention the subject
egain." '- •
:Jimmie knew, by the warm preesere
of Tom's hand, that he was forgiven,
and with a burden lifted from his mind
he was about leaving the room, Whefl
Tom, with a preliminary cough, said:
"By the way, Jimmie, who lets Rose
got here,—what visitor, I morn?" and
Toni tried to look vastly indifferent as
he buttoned his vest and hung aeress
it the chain made from hfary's Jeer.
But the rose did not succeed. Jimmie
knew he hail seen Annie, and with a
sudden uprising of something undefined
he answered in apparent surprise:
"'Visitor! what visitor! He must lutee
come to-dny, then. Where did you see
him?"
"1 sew her in 'here," Tont replied,
o ltd Jimmie laughingly rejoined:
"A pretty place for her in your gear.
tens! Pray What *MIS 8110 lik0?"
"Some like Mary,. as she used to be
when I first knew hers—a little body
Messee in block."
"With large, handsome blue eyes?"
interrupted Jimmie, while Toni, without
suspecting that Itis lirother's object was
to ftecartain how closely he had observ-
ed the figure in black, replied:
"Yes, very handsome, dreamy eyes."
"And pale brown curls?" With 111.0
1C.atdlig SIMMie'S next query, to which.
Tom quiet:1y responded:
"Curls, me The hair wits braided in
wide plats, tinid twisted around the head,
falling low In the neck."
"Not ti very white nook, was it?"
;Jimmie continued, :with imperturbable
gm efts-.
"Indeed- it Was," Toni .sed„ .scroping
his thumb nail • with his penknife.
"White os Mem, or looked so from the
contrast with her dress. Who is she?"
"One •grestion inere,--had she big
feet or little, slippers or boots'?" find
`this time .Tinmile's voice betrayed bim.
Tom knew he was being tensed, and
bursting into n laugh, he itterwered:
"I confess to having observed her
0101013' but not enough so to tell the
sire of hole:diner. 'Come now, who la
• she? Some Indy you spirited 'away from
Socessiondom? Ten 100, ---you know
you've nothing to fear front steady old
Tom," •
1111 Institut the eyes of the tree
leethere mety with ft cerimis expression
in each. Both' were M18010110 of tome -
thing they were trying to colleen],
while a feeling Akin to e pang shot
r
Testi-It ;mfLa boat es )11. thought
heve n mere %colitis; peen niee (Ira -
!tenths respiet wen 11;114 t.1•I Tom
than n edliehing slues sgeptersice like
himself.
'Trete yorr rather minute fleserierme
I tithe: von must hove stumblel. up
the Widow (Irahatte" sett. "Po4.
hes thk, n her up, 4/04 loww, pia as a
trent litotherl advise, let me say
that if you wisli.,•to raise Rose to tile
betwen•fon hare only to praise
her protege. NO, Snit is the widow
I, do not getsen very well, for she is
staunch natelot, and uutit tine morn -
Mg, I verily believe she looked rm me
as a kind. of =Peter. SION a merest
Pui'itnu,llttle too; and if she says titre
lore. will make n straight-lacol Meths
oiliet of Rose, miller the gnrb of en
lipiscenalian, of course, os she is the
sitrietthe hind ole, a churchwoman."
shall not esteem her loss for thnt,"
Tem ettid, and in rather a pertwrbed
ente of mind,. as liar :le the, W4low
,tlraluen was concerned, be went 'with
auntie to the parlor, half hoping his
Inother had reisehievously misled Mai, •
that the straeger would prove, af-
ter all, to be somo visltor,,rrom Bessie%
But the -first object Ile taw on enter-
ing the parlor was the delnie Agave hi
black, selection by the .wiudow, and on
the third finger of the hand roisee to
adjust the heavy curtain &lamed the
wedding -ring. Toni knew now that
Jimmie had not deceived him, spud ,with
a feeling of disappointment he easiest -
sod • hint Graham, when. introduced by
Jimmie, with some playful, iihnsiou to
their having met before, but saying 10
her them nothing 01! George, for, remenn.
tering his 01\11 feelings when Mary
he- 'knew that Annie would not
thank him, a striuigcr, to bring up sad -
memories of the past be talking of her
husband. • Still, in his Manner toward
her there was something which told
how he pitied and sympathized with
her,•and Annie, grateful 'always for the
smallest 'kindness, threw off her air of
quiet reserve and talked with him free-
ly, asking,. many. questions .concerning
Isaac Simms and the condition of the
Itichmond prisoners geeereally.
"She WW1 going round after Rimer
to call .on. Isaac," she incidentally said,
whereupon Tom, rejoined. that, wishing
to know how Terme bore the journey
And the excitement, he had intended
going there himself, and would,with her
permission, time his visit to sit her
corveuionce, and so accompany her.
Instantly iTimmie's black eyes flashed
upon Aunie a look of enquiry,' •which
'brought the bright color to her cheeks,
for else knew he was thinking of the
night when she had refused his escort,
and she felt her present position a ra-
ther embarrassing. one. Still the &-
mune-the:MS were entirely different.
There was a reason why Tom should
call on. Widow Simms, while with Jim-
mie there ivas none, and, bowing to
Captain Carleton, she replied that "she
eresumed Mrs. Simms would be glad
of an opportunity to thank, him for his
kindness to Isttfte, and that, though not
111 clic least afraid to go alone, she had
n� objection to showing him the way."
"What! going off the first night, and
they are coming to serenade you,- toe?
' You nmst not go, Tem. Shell he Mo-
ther?" cried Rose, who at first had
been too busy with her duties os hitt:t-
ees, clearly to-comPTeYchld what Sole
was saving to Annie; .
"It will look as if you did not opine;
elate the people's attention," Mrs. Car:
leton replied, while Jimmie vehemently
protested against the impropriety of
the act, and so Tom was campelled to
yield, thinking the while that a walk
to the Widow Simms's might possibly
afford him. quite as much satisfaction -
as staying at home for a serenade.
"I always surrender to the majority,"
he said, playfully, whije .Jimanie's
ornrits rose perceptibly, and Annie hod
never before seen him so witty or gay
since he 0111110 home from Weshington
as he was during the -dinner. -
It was joy at his brother's return,
she thought, • never suspecting that
Tom's decision had anything to do with
it, and Jimmie hardly knew himsele,
that it had. He only felt relieved thy'
Tom was not to receive a favor whice
bad once been denied th himself, cid
glad also that Annie was to- spend e
evening with- them. But • in this he
was mistaken. There was no necessity
for Annie's deferring her visit. 'The
serenade waS not for her, and with that
nice sense of propriety which prompted
her to shrink from anything like intru-
sion, she felt that oft this first night
of • their rennioie the Carleton fondly
would rather be alone. This rule would
apply also to Mrs. Sinure, but Amite
knew she was always welcome the
widow, and wishing tb see the boy who'
had lee her husband from the battle-
field, she went to her room, and throw-
ing on her clank and hood stole silent-
ly emit stairs jest as Jimmie mem
crossing the hall. He guessed where
she was going, and coming quickly to
her side, said:
"I supposed you had given ep that
cane but if you perst in going, it must
net bo Mono, this night of all °there,
AN hen the streets are likely to be full
of men and boys. You accepted my
brother's oseart, yen cannot, of course. ,
Verso mine," nud seizing his hat hem
the hall Mend he led het net upon the
steps end placed her arm in his with
nu air of so meth autherity that .Annie
had no word to offer in remonstrince.
it wits not it very eentfortoble walk
to either party, or a very sociable ono
either, but em it was -touted Annie had
reneolt to 'be glad Mot she was not
Moue, for, as jimmie had predieted, the
streets were fell of men mid boys, fol-
lowing the band up to the Mather umn-
eloin and as the met gronp After
group of the noisy throng, Anoie tim-
idly drew closer to- her conmanionovhe
eressed marc tightly the arm trembling
its his owe.,
"I net glad you mint with me," she
veld, when at last the friendly gleam of
the widow's candle mewed view,
'bet if you plense think you had bets
ter not go in to -night. Yon tire so much
it stranger to the flintily, tilid
Simmees boys Imre just returned •John -
will see me safely home, and I'll muse
eou now.. You must feel anxious to re.
join your brother."
ilut Jimmie mitts riot to be disposed of
so 'easiih.. Ire hod no intention of enter -
in the home, but he ehould welt out-
side, he saki, until Antes visit was
over. Annie bred no alternative save.
)0.7h
togliA
submission, ',and, Parthig from jbxtutte
At the gate, idle hurried up the walks,
end wee soon bending over the camel of
tho sick boy, whose eyes beamel the
welecnee his polo lips could. searsely
steak. Hew teeny questions she had to
ask him sial hole mush he bad te tell
her of the day when her husband receiv-
ed his fatal wOUnal Altogether it was
11. .11114 :leterview, and Annie's eyes were
neatly blistered with the hot tears she
Fht` while listening to Isaficht toitehing
recount of George ere the wools were
gained, and Tom Carleton generously
gene up his sent to the bleeding mini,
thereby Wonting himself a prisoner,.
Much, too, was said in pralem of Tom,
MIA Annie felt that elle collie not do too
mush
for one who had shown hirrulelt
so generous and brave. Talking of
Tem reminded her of Jimmie, stalking
up and down the ivy walks, waiting pa -
tie: sly for her, and when at last the
lore:c of Tomei servitude had eease4
r! firore to go, wishing to get away eLe
tho bund came the-ne, as she Miele thi7s
tier° inequities to do. As John arose
to aceompany her, she .had to say that
'Jimmie Corleten was waiting for her
by the gate.' Instantly the sharpeyes
of the widow shot at her a crialous
glance which brought the hot blood to
her cluele while John and Steens ex-
changed n. smile, the meaning of which
she could not fall to .understane, • Boor
Annie! 'few her heart throbbed with
Dein as she guessed of what they were
thinking!. Could they for a moment be-
lieve her soeheartlees and eola? The
mere idea made hereiszy and faint,
and, ecercely articelating her good-
night, sho hastened out into the cold
night air, feeling halt tempted to re-
fuse outright the ems offered for her
support. If she Ouly dared toll him to
leave her there alone, --leave her to flee,
away through the dark, lonely -streets
to the still more lonely yard, where on
George's .grave she could lay heiself
down and die. But not thus easily
could life's heavy burden be shaken
off; she could not lay it down at will,—
and conquering the emotion which,
eaelt Ewe she thought of John Simms's
significant mile, threatened to buret
cut auto n fierce storm of passionate
soles she apologizod for having kept
Jimmie waiting so long, And taking his
arm left the cottage gate Jost as the
throng of serenaders turned into that
street. Jimmie know she had been ery-
ing, and, conjecturing that she had been
talkingof lee hueband, he, too,' begin
to speak of George, Asking her many
questions about him, and repeating
many things he had heard in his praise
from the Rockland citizens. It seem-
ed strange that this should eomfott her,
but it did. The hard, bitter feeling in-
seesibly passed away while listening to
Minutia, and by the time the Mather
mangle': was reaehed the tears were
dried on Annie's cheeks, and outwardly
she wail as cheerful and patient as
PY•er
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said he would give one dollar. Jut as
he oat down, luvrever, a lump of plaster
tell from the ceiling and hit him on
the head, whereupon he rose up hastily
and called out that lie had Miele fl•
take, he would give fifty dollars. This
was t00111n011 for An 011thnSisStiO mein-
ber presonb,,who forgetful a everything,
called out fervently: "0 Lord hit him
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After that night Rose had no cause .
•
foo complaint that Jimmie wits rude to
Annie, or Annie cool toward h:m, for
though Annie tAlked to him but little,
she did not forget the sympathyso $.
clehetttely manifested for her, • dnd •
treated him with :is ninth respect as
she awarded Teen who grew each day
more and more interested in the black -
robed figure, reminding him so much of s
his lest 'Mary._ ,aimmly"luiew he did, d
mei watched narrowly for t'ie tees
when she would knee it, too; but seeti-
tfine did not come„Vfor luid 1)0
suspicion that eithel ot the brothers re
gerdon her withothe shansw 01' a fee:
•
ing save that„Cf ordinary -friendship.
As much' of ,her time as possible was
silent witliethe Widow Simms, and a
groat part •et Isaac's visible heprove-
ment was: owing to her gentle care and
the sunshine cifsher presence. John's
ferlough had expnsed, and, now that he
was gone, the disconsolate Susan turn-
ed to Annie for comfort, 'Itile Isaac
listened daily for the sound of the little
feht coming up the walk, and bringing
schth them so much hailpiness to the
jonely cottage.
"/ wish you'd stay hornet., more; we
miss yon so much, and it's leo dismal
without. you. Mother nods 'ver her
knitting, Tom just walks the floor, or
reads some ,stiff Prebyterian book.
wbile Jimmit thrums the piano and
teases my kitten awfully," Rose said to
Annie one night when the latter came
in from a tour of calls, the last of
which had been on Mrs. Baker, now a
much happier, better woman than when°
we first made her acquaintance. "It's
so different when you are here," Rose
continued, as Armie came and Sat -down
by her side. "Tom is neheap more 00-
tertaining, while Jimmie is not half so
mischievous and provokieg."
"I. did net suppose my absence could
Affect your lumpiness, or I would cer-
thinly hive stayed with you mom" An-
nie replied; and. Rose continued:
"Well, it het dces, •and now that
both Tom and Jimmie are going 80
soon, I shall need you to oversee the
things I must get ready for them."
"Coptein Carleton and Jimmie going
away sem!" 'Annie repeated in some
surprise. "Where are they going? The
csontain's furlough has not yet expir-
ed,''
"I know it," Rose continued, "but ts
he is perfectly well, he thinks it right
to g hack, ond has fieed on Ono week
from to-dny." •
j0:17::, but Jimmie. Ton spoke of his
leaving, too," Annie snid, and ItOse
"Jimbile is going with Tom to loin
the Federal army on the Potoniric, 01141,
as he says, retrieve, if possible, the
chetheter he lost 'lay turning halter
ouce.".
"011, se glad! mid 1 like him 80
ninth for OW" Annie exchilined, her
white face lighting up with a midden
anitantIon, which made it seem vevy
beautiful to the young man just enter-
ing the (Mor.
"I wortbl braVe the etintrolls month
for anther look like that," was .Tiln4.
mie's nlentel remittent, its he steppol
into the room, and adilinced to the
side. "Se you ore glint I am go-
ing'?" he said, halt playfully, to Annie,
who answered frankly:
"Yrs, very gina."
"Ana won't you ittsvi tt bitrolbs
like to be Missed, roe keeW, if fluty
are ever so bad. It makes one think
better Of himself, Mel eanseginsetly .do
better 1± 11(1 hentva. that Iiia absence wIll
rause a feeling of .regret, however •
siZeht. to the friends left behind." Jim.
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