The New Era, 1882-05-04, Page 27
May 4, 1882.
(JII 1Z very Sollimid.
In every sound I think I hear her feet --
And still I wend my altered way alone,
And still I say, To -morrow we shall meet."
I Watch the shadows in the crowded street --
Each passing face I follow one by One—
In every sound I think I hear her feet.
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And months go by -bleak March and May -day
heat- "
Harvest is over -winter well-nigh done -
And still I say, "To -morrow we shall meet."
Among the eity.squares, when flowers are sweet
With every breath a sigh of her's seems blown,
In every sound I think I hear her feet.
Belfry and clock the unending hours repeat,
From twelve to twelve --and still she comes in
nOne— • .
And still I say, "To-niorrow we shall meet.'
Oh, long-delayed to -morrow I hearts that beat
Meabure the length of every minute gone -
In every sound I think 'hear her feet.
Byer the sun -rise, tardily or fleet,
And light the letters on a churchyard stone -
And still I say, " To-morrovi we shall meet"!
And still from oat herunknown, far retreat
She haunts me with her tender undertone -
In every sound I think I hear her feet -
And still I say, " To-morrowwe shall meet!"
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LIER, BOY 'Air 'LAST,.
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A SOCIETY NOVEL.
, By the author of " Edith Lyle," "Mildred
"Forrest House," "Chateau d'Or," eto.
That was all she said -all that Maddy
ever knew of her history, as it was never
_referred_to_.again,exo.epL that_e_vening,_
when Agnes said toher, pleadingly :
"Neither Guy nor Jessie, nor any one,
need know what I have told you."
"They shall not," was Maddy's reply ,;
and from that moment the past, so far as
Agnes Was concerned, was a sealed page to
both. With this bond of confidence beteveen'
thena, Agnes felt herself strangely drawn
towards Maddy, while, if it were possible,
something of her olden love was revived
for the helplese man who clung to her now
instead,of 'Maddy, refusing to let her go ;
neither had Agnes any dieposition to leave
him. She , should stay to the, last, she -
aid; and she did, taking afaddy's place,
and by her faithfulness and care. wimiing
golden laurels in the opinion of the neigh-
bors who marvelled at first to see so gay a
lady- at lJnole Joseph's bedside, attributing
it all to her friendship for Maddysjust as
they attributed his calling for Sarah as a
crazy freaks She' did resemble Sarah
Morris a very little, they said ; and
in Maddy's presence they sometimes won-
dered where Sarah was, and if she was
happy with the old. naan whomshe mar-
ried, and who they had heard was not se
rich after all, as most of -the money be-
longed to the son, who inherited it from
his mother ; but Maddy kept the Beeret
from every One, so that even Jessie never
suspected why her mother stayed day after
day at the cottage, watching and waiting
until the last day of JasePhhi life.
She was alone with him when he died, •
and Maddy never knew what passed be-
tween them: She had left them- together
for an hour, while she did some errandst,
and when she returned Agnes met her at
the door, and with a blanched cheek whis-
pered :
"He is dead; he died in my arms,
blessing you and me. Surely my sin isnow
forgiven ?"
CHAPTER XXII.
BEFORE THE BRIDAL.
There was a fresh grave made in the
churchyard, and another chair vacant at
the cottage, where Maddy was at last alone.
Unfettered by care and anxiety for eick
ones, her aching heart was free to go to the
stately mansion she had heard described so
often, and where now two brides were busy
with their preparations for the bridal
hurrying On so fast. Since the letter read
in the leafless October woods, Maddy had
not heard from Guy directly, though Lucy
had written a few brief lines, tellieg how
happy she was, how strong she was grow-
ing, and how much like himself Guy
was becoming. Maddy had been less than a
woman if the last intelligence had failed
to affect her unpleasantly. She did not
wish Guy to regret his decision ; but to be
forgotten BO Boon after so strong protesta-
tions of affection was 'a little mortifying,
and Maddy's heart throbbed painfully as
she read the letter, half hoping itmight
prove the last she should receive from Lucy
Atherstone.
Guy had left no orders for any changes
to be made at Aikenside; but Agnes, who
was largely imbued with a love of bustle
and repair, had insisted that at least the
suite ot moms intended for the bride
should be thoroughly renovated with new
she have had her way, she wohld have
stopped the marriage, and, bringing her
boy home, have given him to the young girl
weeping so bitterly in her lap. But Mrs.
Noah could not have her way. The bridal
guests were, even then, assembling in that
home beyond the sea. She could not call
Gruy back, and so she pitied and caressed
the wretched Maddy, eaying to her, at last:
" tell you what is impressed on my
mind ; this Lucy's got the consumption,
without any kind of doubt, and, if yoU've
no objections to a widower, you mast—"
She did not finish the sentence, for
Maddy started in horror., To her there
Was something murderous in the very idea,
and she threat it quickly aside. Guy
Remington was not for her, she said, and
her wish was for her to forget him. , If she
could get through the dreaded to -morrow'
she should do better; 'There had been'.a
load upon her the whole day, a nightmare
she could not shake off, and he had °owe
to Lucy's room, in the hope of leaving -her
burden there, of praying her pain away.
Would Mrs. Noah leave her awhile, and see
that no one came?
The good woman cold not refuse, and
going out, she left Maddy by the window,
watching the sun as it -went down, and
then watching the wintry twilight deepen
over the landscape, until things were
blended together in one great darkness, and
Jesine, seeking for her, found her , al last
faintieg upon the floor.
Maddy was glad of the racking headache
which kept her in -bed the whole of the
next day, glad of any excuse to stay away
from the family, talking of Guy, and what
was transpiring hi England. They had
failed to remember the difference in the
longitude of the two places ; but Maddy
forget nothing, and when the, clock struck
hg-dheihalledh Mrs. Noah ;to her and -Whis-
pered faintly :
"They were to be marriedbefore 12,
yeti know, so it was over tyre) hours ago,
and Guy is lost forever !"
. Mrs. Noah had no consolation to offer,
and -only pressed the hot, feverish hands,
while Maddy turned her face to the wall,
and did het speak again, except to whisper
incoherently as she half slumbered, half
"Did Guy think of me when he promiBed
to love her; and does he, can he 'see how
miserable I am?" .
Maddy was indeed. passing through deep
waters, and the day and the • night of the
fourth of -December were the longest.
dreariest she ever , knew, 'and could never
be forgotten. Once past, the worst was
kver, and as the rarest metal is purified by
fire, se Maddy -came from the dreadful
ordeal strengthened for what was before.
Both Agnes and Mrs: Noah noticed the
.strangely beautiful expression of her face •
when she mine down to the breakfast -
room, while Jessie, as she kissed her pale
cheek, whispered: • •
" You leek as if you had been with the
angels." • .
Guy was not expected with his bride for
two or three weeks, and as the days drag-
ged on, Maddy felt that the .waiting for
him was more intolerable than the seeing
him with Lucy would he. Restless and
•impatient, she could not remain 'quietly at -
the cottage -and when at Aikenside, she
longed to return again to her OWn, home ;
and in this svay the time wore on, until the
-anniversary of that day when she had conae
from,New York, and found Guy waiting for
her at the station. To stay that day in the
house et) trife. with memories of the dead
was -impossible, and Flora ,was surprised
and delighted to hear that both were going
up to Aikenside in the vehicle hired of Far-
.mer_Green, whose sonofficiated as driver:
It was nearly noon when they reached their
de_stination, meeting at the gate with
Flora's brother Tom, who said. to thin: •
We've heard from Mr. Guy; the ship
in; they'll be here to -night, and Mes. Noah
is turnin' things -upside down with the
dinner." .
Leaning back in the buggy, Maddy felt
for as moment as if she wehe dying. Never
until then had she realized how, all the
while, ehe had been clinging to an indefin-
able hope, a Presentimeht • that something
Might yet occur to spare :her frona along
lifetime of pain, Bucliss lay before her, if
.Guy -were really lost; but -the bubble had
:burst, leaving her 'nothing to hope, hothipg
to cling to, nothing but black despair.; an&
half bewildered, she received the noisy
greeting -of Jessie, who met her at the door,
and dragged her into the drawing -room,
dechrated with flowers from the h-othouse,
and told her to gueSs Who was coining.
"1• know; Tern told nae ;' Guy P3 corning
with Lucy," Maddy answered, and re-
lieving herself -from Jesdie, she turned to
Agnes, asking Where Mrs. -Noah was, and
if she might go to her for a Moment.
'9b, -Maddy, child, I'M sorry you're.
°ohm to -day," Mrs. Noah said, as she
chafed Maddy's cold hands, and leading her
to the,fire, made her eithdown, while she
paper - and paint, carpets and _furnis, untied her hood, and removed her cloak
ture. This plan Alk.h.lsheah opposed, for
' she gneesed how little G-uy woeld care for " did'not know it, or I should net have
the change; but Agnes was resolved, and, canoe," Maddy replied ; "I Shall not [stay,
as she had great faith in MaddY's taste; she as it is. I cannot see theni to -clay. Charlie
insisMdSthat she should go.-to.:Aikeriside ..Will_drive ie backsbefore the train is due.
and.passler judgment upon the improve- But what did he say? Andlow is InicyS".
mente. It would do her good, she 'said- • " He did not mention her. There's th•e
littledreaming bow much it cost Maddy to. despatch," and Wird. Noah handed to Maddy
eornply with her wishes, or how fearfully, the telegrain, received this morning, ,and
the poor, crushed heart ached ae Maddy which was simply as follovvs
went through the handsome rooms intended "The Steamer is in. Shall be DA the
for Guy's young bride ; but.Mrs. Noah station at 5 o'clock p. m.
guessed it all and pitied the white:faced . " -Gush Rumniehost.
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girl, whose deep. mourning robes told the' - Twice --Maddy readitehverhelPeriefeeind
loss of dear ones by death, but gave no much the same feeling she would. , have
token of that great loss, tenfold worse than experienced had it beep her death warrant
death. she was reading. '
" It was wickedSin her to fetch you here," "At 5 o'clock. I must go • before that,"
she said to Maddy one day When in Lucy's she said, Sighing as she •renaembered how,
room she fouhd her sitting .upon thelloor, one year ago that day, she was travelling
with her head bowed down upon tlae win- over the verY route where Guy was now
dow sill. "But she's a triflin' thing, and travelling with his bride. Did he think of
didn't know 'twould kill you, poor child, it? think of his long waiting -at the depot,
poor Maddy " and Mrs. Noah laid her .or of that metnora,bleride to Honedale, the
, hand kindly on. Maddy's hair. "Maybe events of which grew more and, More
yon'd better go home," she continued, as distinct in her'metnory, making her cheeks
Maddy made no reply ." a must' be hard; burn even now, .as she recalled his many
to be her in the rooms and among:the acts of tenderness and care.
things which by good- geed rights should -bee Laying the telegram 'on the, table, she
yours.' • went with Noah through the' rooms,
"No, Mrs. Noah," andMaddy's Voice was warmed and made ready for the. bride,
strangely unnaturaI g she lifted -up her lingering longest in Lucy's, Whieh the
head, revealing a face so haggard and: bridal, decoratimis and the bright' fire
svlaite that Mrs. Noah mini frightened, and blazing in the, grate made singularly.invit.
asked in Much alarm if anYthing new had ing: As yet there vrete•no flowers there,
happened. •• and Maddy clainaed the privilege of arraeg-
' " No, nothing; I was going to say that ing them for this room herself.. Anes had
I'd rather stay a little longer where there almost stripped tho,. censervatory; are signs signs and sounds of life. / 'ehould die Maddy:found enough to form a most taste.'
to be alone at Honedale to-mprroW.', I may full bouquet; whid13-. else placed upon a
may die here, I don't hnow., Do you know marble dressingstable then within a slip
that to-morrow.svill be the bridal? " of paper which she folded adross the top
Yes', Mrs. Noah knew it but she hoped she wrote: -• '
it might have escaped Already's mind. . • " Welcome to the bride." '
." Pcior child,"' she ' s'aid _again's " poor " They both will recognize my •hasid-
child,. I mistrust you did Wrong to tell him writing; know I've been here," she
No " . thought, as with one long, last and look at
" Oh, Mrs. Noah, don't say that; don't the room, she Walked away.
make it harder for me to laear. The They , were laying the table for dilator
tempter has been telling me so all days and now, and with a kind of dizzy, uhciertain
my heart is so -hard and widked, I cannot. feeling, Maddywatclied the iiervants hurry -
pray as I would. Oh, you don't know 'how Ing to and fro, bringing out the choicest
Wretched I am ! " and Maddy hid her face chintts'and glittering silver, in honor a the
inithe broad, Motherly lap, sobbing so bride. , Comparatihely, it VMS not king-
wi clly that Mee. .Noah waegreetlY per-, since, a little, frightened, homesick girl, 'she
Plexed how to act or what to say. ---------.- first sat down with Guy at that table, froth
Yeare ago, she yehuld have spurned the whieh the protd Agnes would havehanished
thought that the grandchild of the oldman her ;liut it seemed to her an age, so 'Much
who had bowed to his own picture,' ehould of happiness and pain had' come
be mistress of Aikenside; but now, could
place for her there now, near Guy; but
she should hot fill it. She could not itaY ;
and she astonished Agnes and Jessie, just
as they were going to make their dinner
toilet, by announcing her intention of geing
horne. She was not dressed to meet Mrs.
Remington, she said, shuddering as for the
first time she prenounced• a name whioh
the servants bad frequently used, and
which jarred on her ea e every time he
_heard it. She was not dressed appro-
priately to meet an English lady. Flora of
course would etay, she said, as it was
natural she should, to greet her new mis-
tress ; but she must go; and finding
Charlie Green she bade him bring round
the buggy. -•
Agnes was not particularly surprised, for
a vague suspicion of something like the
truth had gradually been creeping into her
brain, as she noted. Milady's pallid fake and
the changes Which paheed over it whenever
Guy was mentioned. Agnes pitied,,Maddy,
for in her own heart ,there was a little
burnihg.spot, whoa she remembered who
,was to accompany- Dr., Holbrook. So she
did not urge her to remain, and she tried to
hush-Jessie's lamentations when she heard
Maddy was going. • ,
One long, sad, wistful look at Guy's and
Lucy's home, and Middy followed Charlie
to the buggy waiting for her, and bade hina
drive rapidly, as there was every indication
•of a coming storm. •
The gray, wintry' afterhoon was drawing
to a close, and the December night was
shutting down upon the Honedale hills in
sleety rain, when the cottage was reaehed,
and Maddy, pas'singup the narrow, slippery
walk,entered the cold, dreary room, where
there was neither fire nor light, nor friendly
voice to greet her. No seund save the ticking
of the clock ;Tho welcome save the purring of
the house -cat; who came crawling at her.
feet BA she knelt before the stove and, tried
to kindle the fire. Charlie Green had
offered to go in and -do this for her as
indeed he had offered to'return :and etityall
hight, but she had declined, preferring to be -
alone, and with. stiffened ,fingers she -laid
the kindlings Flora had prepared,,anathen
applying the match;watchetl the blue flame
as ,it gradually licked hp the smoke and
burst 'into a eheerful blaze. •
• " I shall 'feel better When it's warna,"
she said, crouching over the fire, and shiver-
ing with more than bodily cold.
There was ' a kind of nameless terror
stealing over her as she sat thinking of the
years ago when the inmates of three graves
acroSs the.meadove were there beneath that
very roof where she s,at alone.'
" I'll strike alight," she said, rising to her
feet,. and trying not to glade at the .sha-
dowy corners filling' her with fear. ,
The lamp wite found, and. its friendly.
beams. soon dispersed the darkness fronds
the corners ahd the fear; frona, Maddy's
heart, but it did not drihe ,froin her mind
thoughts of what might at that mornent be
transpiring aA Aikenside. If the bride and
groom came at all that night, she knew
they must have been there for an hour or
more, and in fancyshe saw the tired but
happy•Lucy, sag in her pleagant room she
made her toilet for 'dinner, with Guy 'stand-
ing bh and looking on. Did he smile approv-
ingly upon 'his young wife Did his eye,
when it rested on her, light up with the same
expression she had seen so often when it
looked at her? Did he conainend, her taste
and say his little wife was beautiful, as he
kiesed her fair white cheek,. or was there a
cloud on his handsome ,face, a Shadow on
his heart, heavy with thoughts of her, and
would he rather it were Illaddy there in the
bridal room? If BO, his burden Wag hard
indeed, but not so hard as hers, ant/ kneeling
on the floor, poor Maddy laid her hea.d in
the chair, and, 'mid piteous moans, asked
God, her Father, to help them both to bear
h:help her and Guy ---making the latter
love as he ought the gentle girl who had
left homeand friends to live with hira in a
far distant land ; asked, too, that she might
tearfrona her heart eirery sinful thought,
loving Giiy only as rthe might love the hus-
band of another.
The prayer ended, Maddy still sat upon
the floor, while over her pale face the
lamplight faintly flickered,showing the dark
lines beneath her eye,shased the tear -stains
on her cheek. Without the ,Storra .still was
raging, and. the wintry- rain, Mingled with
sleet and anew, bee.t piteously against the
'curtained windows, while the wind hoWled
mdurnfully as it Bhookthe door, and svveep.
the hill. But Maddy heard nothing of the
tumult. She had brpught • a pillow from
the bed -room, and plachigit upon the,chair,
sat dowti again Upon' the floor and 'rested
her head upon it. She did not even know
' that her pet cat had °refit up beside her,,
purring contentedly, and occasionally lick-
ing -her hair, Much less did She hear above
the Storm the swift tread of horse's feet as
some one ulnae dashing down the road, the
rider pausing an instant as he 'caught a
glimpse of the cottage lamp, and then
hurrying on to the public -house beyond,
where the hostler frowned moodilylitheffig
called out to care for the bores of a stranger,
who went back on foot -to where.the cOttage
la.nap shone a beacon light through theinky
"
darkness. . •
a The Stranger -reached- thelittle.gaterand
undoing -the fastening, went hurrying up
the walk, his step upon the crackling snow
catching MaddY's -ear , at last , and making'
her wonder who could be coining thereon
such a night as this. It was 'probably
Charlie Green, ahsaid, and with a feeling
of impatimacei at being intrudedtpon she
rose to her:feet just as the door--turned-
upon its hinges, letting' in a powerful
draught of wind which extinguished the
light, and left her in total darkness.
But it did not naatteh.- Maddy had caught
a sound, a peculiar cough, whioli froze the
blood in her veins, and made her quake
with terror quite as much as if the footsteps
hurrying toward her had been the footsteps
of the dead, instead of belonging, as she knew
they did, to Guy Remington -who, with -
parments saturated with rain, felt for her
inthe darkness, and found her where from
faintness she had crouched again beside the
chair, and drawing her closely to hina in a
passionate, almost painful embrace, said,
so tenderly, SO lovingly :
"Maddy, my darling, nay own 1 We vvill"
never be parted again."
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' CHAPTER XXIII.
Luce.
Hours went by, and the hand f the
olOok pointed te twelve, ere Middy compel-
-led herself to hear the story Guy had come
to tell. She had thrust him frena her at
first, speaking to him of Lucy, his wife, and
Guy had answered her," I have no wife -
I never' had one. Lucy* ie in Heaven;"
and that svas all Maddy knew until the
great shock had spent itself in tears and
sobs, which became almost convulsions as
she tried to realize the fact that Lucy
Atherstone was dead; that the bridairobe
about which she 'had written with girlish,
frankness proved to be her shroud, and that
her head' that night was not pillovved on
Guy's arm, but resting under the Englieh
turf and beneath an English sky. ' She
could listen at last, but her breath care° in
patiting gasps; while Guy told- her how, on
the, very morning of the bridal, Lucy had
greeted him with her usual bright snail°,
appearing and looking'better than be had.
Been,lier look since he reached her mothoh's
home; andshow for an hour they sat
to her alto° then. There was a a together alone in a little room daored to her,
because years before at was there he con-
fessed his love. '
Seated on a low ottoinan1 with her golden
head lying on his lap, she bad this
morning told him, in her artlees way, how
much she loved him, and how hard it some.
times was to make her love for the creature
second to her love for the Creator; told him
she was not faultless, and asked that when
hi found how erring and weak she was, he
would bear with her frailties as she would
bear with his; talked with him, too, of
Maddy Clyde, confessing, in a soft, low
tone, how once or twice a pang of jealousy
had wrung her heart when she read his
praises of hie pupil. But she had conquered
that; Bile had prayed it all away, and now,
next to her own sister, she, loved. -Maddy
Other' words, too were spoken -words of
guileless pure affeolion, too sacred even for
Guy to breathe to Maddy; and thenlelnY
had left him, her bounding step , echoing
througlithe hall and up the winding stairs,
down which she never came again alive,
for when Guy next looked upon her she
was lying white" and .still„ her neck and
dress and golden hair stained with the pale
life -blood oozing from her livid lips. A
blood -vessel had been suddenly ruptured,
the physician said,addingthat it as what
he had been fearing for some time, and
now it had come -and there was no hope.
They told her she must die, for the mother
wouldhave them tell her. Once, for a feW
moments there was on her face a fright-
ened look, such as a harmless bird might
wear when suddenly caught in' a snare.
But that soon passed away as from beneath
the closed eyelids the great tears came,
gushing, and the stained lips whispered
faintly:
"God knows best what is right, Poor
Guy! Break it gently to him." ".
At this point in the Story, Guy broke
down entirely, sobbing only s strong men
can sob.
• "'Maddy" he said, "I felt •like -i heartless
wretoha most consummate hypocrite -as,
standing by Ludy's side, 1 met the fond
pitying glance of her blueeyes; andsuffered
-the peerlittle‘hand • to part nay hair as she
„tried to comfort Ineseven though. every
.word she uttered. was :slaortehing,her fifes
trierte comfort 'me, the Wretch' who was,
the.reschuhwillingly, and who at, this pros-
peet of release hardly line* .BA frit whether
he yeas nahhe 'sorry than glad. You mayheell
start from me inhorrorS Middy, I was just
the wretali I describe; but ..1 overcanae it,.
Maddy, and Elea,Ven is mywitness that no
thought of you intrudeditself upon me
afterwards as I. Stood by my d-ying Lucy..
I saw how good; hoW sweet she 'MIS, and.
something of the old love came back to me,
as r held -her in uay airzs, where she wished
' to be. :I would have eaved her if I could:
and when I called her my .darling Lucy'
they were not idle Words. I kissed her
many timesfor myself s 'and:once, Maddy,
for you. She toldine to do so. She whis-
pered, Kiss me, •Guy for Maddy
Tell her pa rather she should, take my
place than anybody else -rather my Guy
should call lier wife -for- , 1, know she
. would not b.:deadens if you sometimestalked
of your , dead 'Lucy, and 1 know she tvill
help to lead you to that blessed home where.
sorrow never comes.' That was the last
she ever spoke, and -When. the. 'Run w,ent
don death hadelained my bride: She died
in my a.rms:, Maddy. I felt the last flutter-
irig-of her pulse, the, last beat of. her heart.
I laid her back upon her pillows.' wiped,
the blood:from her -lips and frona her golden
curls. I followed her to her early grave. I
easy:her buriedfroin riay sight,an a then,Mad-
dy, I started for home ; ,thoughts of you and
thoughts kf .Luashblended equally together
Until Aikenside was reached. 'I talkedwith
MM. Noah ; 1 heard' all of you there. Was
to tell, and then I talked with Agnes, who
was not :greatly surprised, . andhdid • not
opposes:ay coming here tonight. I could
not renaainthere, knowing' you were here
alone, even though some old fogie B might say ,
it was not proper -God knows what is in my
heart. In the bridal chamber I found year .
bouquet; with its Welcome t� 'the, Bride.'
Maddy, you ' must be that bride. • Lucy,
sanCtioned it, and the (lector, , too, for:I
told him all.. Hie kWh wedding was; of'.
course, deferred, an:4 he did not corriehonae
with nae, but he Bid, 'Tell Maddynot to
wait. -Life is too Short to waste,apy hap-
pihesi. She has nay:blessing.' And, Maddy,
it mustbe BO. Aikenside needs a mistress;
you are all alone. Yous: are raitie-mine
. forever!' , `: • • •
' The storm had hied 'away, and the nacion-:
beamsstealing through the , Wind9W :told
that. Morning was breaking; but sneither
Guy tor Middy heeded' the lapse of time.
Theirs was a gad kind of happiness as they
sat talking together, and could Lucy h'ave,
listened to them.ehe would lia.ve felt satis-
fied that she Was not forgotten. One long
brightcur, out from her, head by his sewn
hand, was all there was kit of her to Guy:
isaveAltehallowed' nie'mOries of her:purity
sat cl-goacineestatshanride which'would-yet
,nsould the proud impulsive man into the
o
:earnest, .0.011SietenrtCAlitrEi,sti,a‘ 13:
:IN:which, Lucy
X-X
in her life had desired. ,thitt . he ehOuld be,
'and which Maddy rejoiced tsee,'hina.
--CHAPTER
It is the,close of a. cabal September after-
noon, and the autumnal sunlight falls softly
• upon Aikeneide, where a gay party is now
assembled. For four 'years Maddy 'Clyde
hag. beeiai mistress, there arid, in looking
-back-upon-thena-she-wondershovs B& ranch
happiness as she has known _could be
experienced in so short it time. lever but
once has the slightest ripple o sorrow
shadowed her heart, and that hems, when
her noblehusband, Guy, said to hers in It
voice she knevir was earnest and determined,
that he could no:longer remain deaf to his
country's hall --that where the battle storm
was raging he wag' needed and henaust not
stay at home. Then for a brief 'season her
bright face Was overcasts and her brown
eyes. dim with weeping. Giving him to
the war seemed like giving him up to
death. , But women eau be as true
heroes as mon; and stifling her own grief,
Maddy Jzten t "him' 'away with Smiles and
prayers ,and cheering words of encourage-
ment, turning herself for consolation to the
source trona' which -she never sued for peace
in vain ' • and, save that she rhissed her
huSbandterribly, she was not lonely, for
her beautiful dark -eyed b6y, whom they
called Guy, jun., kept her busy, while hot
many week e after her husband's departure,
Guy read With hadistened eyes of a little
golden -haired daughter,' wham MaddY had
named Lucy Atherstone, and gazed upon a
eurl hair she enelosed, asking if it ,were
not like some ether hair. now raeuldering
back to dust 'within an English church-
yard. , " Maggie say S it is,"' she wrote,
_alluding to the wife of Dr. Holbrook, who.
had come to Aikenside to stay, While her hug -
hand also did his duty as surgeon in the army.
That little claughMr is a year-old baby
how, madii1 her short white dress and coral
bracelets site heglecteh -on tho nursery
floor, while her niether and jessie and
Maggie -Holbrook hasten out into the Yard
to welcome the returning soldier, Major
Guy, whose arra' is m a sling, and whose
face is very pale fromthe effects of wounds
received. at Gettysburg, where his daring
courage had wsell-nigh, won lot Maddy a
widow's heritage. For'sthe present the
arm is disabled; and se he has heen -die.
...•
where' warm words of ,welcome greet him,
from the lowest servant upto his darling
wife, who can only look her joy• as he folds
her in his well HrnEl and kissee het beautiful
face. Only Margaret Holbrookseems
a little Sad,.. for " she had , hoped her
husband would come with Gay, het' his
humanity would not permit him to leave
the • suffering beings who needed his care.
Loving messages he sent her, and her tears
were dried when she heard from Guy how
greatlyhe was beloved by the pale occu-
pants of the beds of pain, and hew much
he was doing to relieve their anguish.
Jessie, grown to be a most beautiful girl
of nearly'16, is'still a child in actions, and,
wild with delight at seeing her brother
again,. throws ,her-arnas around his h'eok,
telling, in ahnhat the' dame breath, 'how
prohd she is of hiriashow much she wished
to go to him when sheheardhe was wound-
ed, how she wished he was, a boy, go she
could enlist, ' laoiv nicely Flora ig married
-and settled at the ,cottage in Henedale, and
' then asks if he knows . anything of the
Confederate Colbnel to whom 'jiist before
the war' broke out her methershas married,
.and whose home was in Riehniond,. .
, Gttyknowe nothing of him,' except .that
he is still fighting for the Confederacy, but
frcen exchanged ,prisoners, whe had conies
in from.Richinond, he has hed of a beau-
. tiful lady, an officer's wife, Mid,as rumor
said, a Northern woman' who visited them
, in prison, speaking kind words of sympathy
to all, , and onces binding up a. druttaner'
bey'e aching head :with - a handkerchief,
,vvhiola he still retained as a 'memento of
her, and on whose corner (gelid be faintly
traced the name of " Agnes.Remingtoe."
Jessie's eyes are full of tears Lis she says.:
‘.'Dear mamma. It's. Menthe since I
heard from hem' direct. Of course .itwas
she who was so pod to the drummer boy.
,She ,einnot he so Very 'bad," and essie
,glances 'triumphantly at Mrs. Noahoh
,lao,
never having quite overcome her dislike 61
-Agnes, land eerelrtried-Jessie by declaring
that het.inether "bad found ,lieh level at
last; and was jest where she wanted:to be."
, Geed ' Mrs'. ,Noals.! The ancient .rnan
who,se name She bore 'wohlds as eoori have
thought cif heaving, 'the ark as she of., turn-.
ing,traitor to hr oountry, and when she
-heard of theriotoud haolhraised against the
draft she 'talked eerietely of going in per-
son to New York " to giye 'ens, a piece of
her Mind," .and for one whOle, day refused
to•speak to Flora's husband because he
was. a " clum dimocrath'• and she ,pre-
sumed wanted' the South' to beat. With
the exception of Maddy, no one was more
pleased to see Guy than herself.. He was
her boy, the one ehe brought up. and, witha
mother's fervor ] she 'kissed his bronzed
cheek, and toldlaira how glad she . was to
have him back.. . : - " ...
', With his boy on tie sound arm, -Guy
disengaged himself from the :noisy- group
and went with Melly to wherethe child he
had never seen Was.jast. beginning to show
SidnS of ,resentment at being left so long
Lulu., sissy, papa's coma; .this is papa,"
the little bey _cried, assuming 'the honer of
the introduction. : . • . . ' ' . • ,
' Lulu, as they,called . her, • was not afraid
of the tall soldier, and ., stretching- out
, •
her fat, white hands; went' to him
readily. , Blue-eyed , andgolden-haired,
she ., bora-belt little .- resemblance to
either father or. :mother, butthere was a
sweet, beautifulhacesof which 'Maddy had
oftendrearued, but never seen, and whether
it .were fancyor not, Gu:y_h_thought. it
beamed upon _him again in the itha,ntile
features of this little girl.. Partinglovingly
her yellow.curls and kissing her fair 'cheek,'
lh, saidto Maddy- softly, just ad he always
spoke of ihit dead one:, ' T. . . .
" Yes, 'darling, Margaret Holbrook is
right -our baby .daughter . 'iEl xr.ery ,much
..iike hurdear.lost Lucy Atherstone."
PIE. END.
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Sturgeon Gil' Liniment.. He. procured. -a'
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Entertain the Girls.
" What shall we do , to entertain 'Oar'
giris ?" says ehreli• gi, .
ous exphange.. A man
Who needs advice as to .1iow to entertain bis
girls is not lit to edit a, religieue •paper. , We
suggeshthat he shouldtake one of them'out
buggy.riding in the afternoon; tell' :her
What .,ahlitisy she is, and, 'hew insipid and
fixed -up that other Thep he should
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very 'uninteresting and awkward the buggy- -
riding girl is: .Wlien the two girliisnieet,
the, religious editor' can.depend on. them.
, entertaining .each other...Without his per
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It is the fashicin. nowa-days to denounee
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.Still some so-called are amongst the:most
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