The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-10-25

he lived, should share his means and af
fections; and finally seeing her still un
convinced and overwhelmed with grief
promised to return on the first opportun
ity.
But what was she to do in the mean
time T The lovers were relieved from thi.
difficulty, too, by her mother coming L,
see her at Pau. Ignorant of the disgrace
that hal befallen her, she went to Mad.
anne L'ville's, hoping 10 see her as beauti
iul and as innocent as when she had quit.
ted her home, .welve months before
Here she learnt the tidings of her dishon.
or. She flew 10 the house where Julie
was staying, and found them all too true.
lie sudden presence Of her mother before
the guilty girl was too much for her corl-
dition; she tainted and then revulsion
OF feeling took place in the mothers heart.
She raised the girl from the ground, call
Ell her every endearing name, assured her
OF her forgiveness and love, and besought
her TO return home Immediately. Julie
at first refused, in her dread Of seeing her
home again but when Charles Down
ham joined his persuasioDs to those of her
Ino'her, she acquisced. He insisted on
her receiving part Of the money which
had been forwarded to him for his Jour.
ney; rs she refused, he placed it in her
name at bakers, and told her that it was
destined for his and her child, and sue had
no right to decline it.
Shortly after this she retui ned with her
mother, and again beheld her native val
10y. What a change in herself since sh !,
had last seen its unaltered face! She hal
left 1t in her beauty and innocence, with
a noble object; she returned to it guilty,
miserable, broken hearted-no longer q
support to those she loved, but dishonnr
and burden. .s
Such thoughts as these brought on
serious ill"ess, and she gave birth to a boy
rs beautiful rs herself Her whole exs-
tence Was now centered in the child. She
wonl'l watch II for hours and hours with
out stirring. She Stunned the society of
her former esmeanGiaas, a Jun d, aad sslio,n, fey
knew her history since her departure from
the village. but the priest, her family, anil
myself, the doctor. Unlike what most
women would have done, think, under
such circumstances, she would talk both
to the priest and myself Of her lover-of.
ten expressing surprise that she had no,
heard from him, but always firmly hold
ing To the belief that he still loved her,
and that he would not be happy as long
as they were separated.
Time passed On this way for year and
n half, without any news of him still she
chung to her immovahle conviction that
she would see him again.
The weather hal been saltry, without
rain, aud everv one was looking forward
to some passing thunderstorm TO mitigate
the overpowering heat. At last, one Of
the most terrible storms that had passed.
over the valley for some time, burst forth.
The rain came down in torrents, the mar.
row mountain paths were washed away,
the g'ives were swollen to nearly twice
their ordinary ,lume, aud much ca, le
and several oranges were swept away
The thunder leapt down from the rocks,
| waking the echoes with frightiul noise,
and tn this was added q terrific gale, which
long LEFT traces OF its fury.
In the inhist of this hurricane, u trav-
eller arrived in the village in which jules
mother dwelt. Their cottage, as you
have seen, is the tirst, ~ you eater the
village. The traveller, without hesitation
walked in drenched 70 the skin but, be-
fore good fire, soon dried his clothes and
regainel his clieerfulness. julie and her
mother happened to have gone to see ~
sick gbbor, and wers not in the house
wi, N he entered. Before the fire the
child was tumb!ing and playing about il
soon LETT its own sports to make friends
with him. IL was quickly seated on his
knee, and began caressing hin. II bore
q strong resemblance to him, and he seem
ed no less struck by il himself than jules
brother and sister We're. The storm gave
place TO one Of those drizzlng showers oi
these mountains, which seein endless
jules brother proposed TO the traveller 10
stay the night, Offering TO show him a
short cut over the inountaius to the Baths
in the morning. The proposition was
gladly accepted. and he amused him .elf
by playing with the child. who seemed to
have taken strange liking TO him.
Towards evening Julie fetn,ned. with
out her mother. who had stopped to tend
her suffering friend throughout the night
Her first look was for her child, who w,v
s,Ill on the strangers knee. She stepped
onward to take il from him, when. by the
blaze Of the FIRE. she ~ once recognized
its father. A slight scream, which 'he in.
slan,ly suppressed, startled him; lie turn.
ed and exclaimed, 'Julielr He did no.
restrain himself from claspinz her Il, his
arms but there was = warning Ia her face
and he made no sthes sign.
Her brother bad heard the scream. and
seen the en- ton which shs Intellectually
endeasorei 70 suppress. lie had heard
her name in the strangers mouth and
now the extraordinary Likeness between
The stranger aud The child were explained
% him.
20 Iulie he had always been the kissd,
est Of brothers; whea she zen, she had
heard no repfoachcs from him; 10 be.
child he bad uniformly been afFsctionais