Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-05-06
MlistelIoucoMs.
Drama in Real Life.

A Scotch paper gives tho following story as
strictly ,rue:--
10 the year 1927, young woman of decent
parentage, engaged in the service of clergy
mans family in the west country, became ac-
quanted WITH and formed an attachment to,
young man in the neighborhood. A child, the
result of this attachment, was ultimately, from
it, consigned to the care of the grandmother on
the fathers side. The mother had frequent OPP
porlunities of seeing and hearing Of her boy
while she remaint in that quarter OF the coun.
try but, some time afterwards, she left the
neighbohood and removed to distance
Thereafter the father left the same district also,
and removed to Ireland, taking The boy along
with HIM So no years ptssel away, and. be-
ing mutually ig~es~". &c each ,shs-'s nlece o.
residence, the mother, after using me ms 10
discover whether her child had been removed,
gave I'D all hope of obtaining the much desired
intelligence. She conducted herself we'll IN the
gentlennn's family in which she served, and IN
few wears thereafter an offer Of marriage was
made to her by respectable r+adesman, which,
after candidly relating to HIM the circumstances
of her previous life, he was, by reason OF his at
tachnent to her, induced to repeat, and she
gratefully accepted the offer. In the prosecution
of his business he soon thereafter removed to
Glasgow, where he commenced business as an
engineer The father Of the boy, in the mean
time, had also married, and by him the YOUTH
when he grew up, was sent to, and completed
his apprenticeship with his engineer in LELAND.
Subsequently the lad went to Glasgow in search
Of and obtained, employment, by singular
coincidence, and withou! knowledge on either
side of the relationship, from the engineer, who
as we have stated, had married the boys mother
and from the fact of her not having seen him
since he was an infant, she never suspected, and
indeed could not possibly have recognized him
as her long lost boy.
1t appears that brother of the lads father
happened to keep booking office for parcels
ETC.. in the city, and to him, among others
the father had sometimes, in his letters alluded
to the mother Of his boy, and his natural curios
ity to know what had become of her. The
young man was occasionally in the habit o
calling on his fathers brother. and reading Of
talking over any mutual letters they might re
ceive from his father in Ireland. 1t chapceC
one day that well dressed, and even lady like
woman, entered the Office to book parcel
The man fixed his eyes upon her, and said he
had some distant recollection OF having seen be-
before, and begged, with all civilily, to inquir,
whethel, in her youth, she had been in employ
ment as a servant at manse IN the west coun
try, which he named. The lady replied tina
she had ; and, ever anxious regarding her boy
and having no reason for conceament, eagerly
inquired if he could give her any tidings Of he
son, or if he knew anything concerning hin.--
The man told her that he was himself the broth
OF the boys father-that, having seen her in for
mer years, he remembered and recognized he
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on the succeeding evening, at seven O'clock
he would make arrangements whereby her sor
would be in attendance, and she might see him
he interest and anxiety, it may be imagined
OF this woman was great. She had not hear
OF her boy, after many vain endeavurs, for th'
long space OF twenty years mot even by letter.
and here, by single accident, when she leas
expected it, she was on the following evening
tosee and converse with him. She immediatel
went home and told the Circumstance to her hus
band, and deep was the interest he alec took i
the matter which 80 much concerned her; fo
she had been to him good and faithful wife
and if she had erred she had washed it ava
with long sorrow and repentance and he, {
all others, had fully and freely forgiven her,
The intervening time, it may be supposed
seemed long and tedious, and it was with a
anxious eye, and paptaring heart, that sh
entered the office OF the book keeper the sue
ceedng evening, few minutes before the az
pointed hour. Ths mai informed her tbat tn
had had not yet arrived, but would be theI
soon, and, handing her seat, told her that h
) would close half-shutter of the side-windo