The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-06-29

'.nlS' anu hloIe dpIOpTlae neadlng. i
skip over all ofthese and SIX years Beside,
and land Master Walter at Staten Island.
bring him up to the city in a steamboat,
and leave him al a respectable hotel and
there let him slrep al night, and take a
good short rest after tedious voyage of
foui months and more.
The next morning we awaken him make
him get up, pay his bin, take hack, and
ride down to the New Haven steamboat and
go aboard. 1t Is o'clock, A.. N. At /
L. NJ. the boat has reached the landing;
his trunk and traps are on board the Itch
heid stsgsI he has taken a seat, his desti-
EATON is an intermediate village. He is a
iJne IN the stage, no, not alone; there is an
old woman on the front seat. and Presby-
terian clergyman on the middle seat. The
stage is up in the city, and slowly mesnder-
ing about New Hayentown, picking up pas
scngers who had sent in their names to the
stage Office, as is still customary in that
staid and sober city ofmineralogy, and OH.
er ologies in general. The stage Jehu pulls
up at the doorofa neat little cottagein Chap
cl street A passenger, young lady Of
sweet seventeen or thereabout, enters the
stage. Before she had fairly got inside,
Waiter had noticed her, and she had no.
iced him too. He gazes in astonishment
at the perfect figure of loveliness before
him; he basn'tseen any thing of the kind
for some years. There is not a particle Of
copper about her. She on her part, has
regarded himattentiyely; pushing back the
golden ringlets that almost shutin herface,
aud takes another look, as if to be certain
that she has made no mistake.
Here is a scat; Miss, beside me- says
the gospel preacher.
Thank you, sir, but Iprefer sitting on
the back seat, with Mat gentleman, If he
viii let me- said she, with the most elec.
trical voice that Walter had listened to in
some time.
Certainly, Miss said the delighted
Bombayite; and when she seated herself BY
him she gazed into his face with such 3
queer kind of mixed up delight and aston.
ishment, that Walter took look down up
on himself to ascertain what there was a.
bout his person that appeared to be SC
pleasing to the fair maiden; but he discov.
cred nothing unusual. The stage rolled or
toward Derby, at its usual rapid rate of five
miles an hour, and Walter and the merry
maid seemed as chatty and cozy together
as though they had known each other fol
years instead of minutes. The minister
tried to engage the ringlets in conversation
but he soon found himself mo where
She had neither eyes nor ears for any body
else but Walter; and he had not told hel
more about his own travels and Bombay
scenery, than he ever told any body before
or since?
Alta they came to Derby. There
horses had to be changed, and four fresh
skeletons were harnessed up and tackled
on to the old stage. Walter handed the
gentle girl back to her old seat as grace
fully as he could have done had he never
lived in Bombay; but always stopped in
New York. They were alone now; the
minister and the old woman had got out al
Derby.
We'll, we are off once more; how far are
you going?' said Walter as the stage went
off.
Not quite as far as Ltch6eld! You say
that your friends reside at Pomperany?-
How glad they will be for to see you?'
Very probably unless they have forgot
ten me, which is likely, for l suppose
have altered some in six years.
Not particle: =
The pretty maid forgot what she wai
going to say, but at last remembered ant
continued:
4 should suppose you had not altered ;fol
you said you were seventeen when you wa
last at your home, and you are only twenty
three. You must have been grown nearl,
as large as you are now
Perhaps SO; but still | am somewhat tan
ned by exposure to an East India climate.
Yet think you will be recognized b,
every body in the village. Do you know
q young lady in Pomperany of the MANI
of Mary Fuller?'
What little Mary? nay little WIFE a.
l used to call her? Why, Lord love you
do you know her? Bless her heart! My
trunk is filed with knick knacks for he
special use. Do l know her? Why
have thought of her ever since | went a
way; young lady?-why, she is little bi
of girl;-she is only ten years old! No
she must be older than that now. l sup
pose l shall find her grown considerably
By the way, are you not coldl 1t is get
ting quite chilly
The delighted young lady was trying t
conceal her face, which had called fortl
Walters exclamation.
Yes; it is getting colder; it is nearl,
dark; and SO it was. Walter had boa
cloak; and after very little trouble he wa
permitted to wrapit around her lovely form
and some how or other his srm went wit
it and in the confusion he was very clos
to her, and his arm was around her wais
outside the cloak though; then he had to pr
his face down to hear what she said; an
somehow those long ringlets of soft silk
hair were playing across his cheek. Hu
man nature could stand it no longer; an
Walter the modest Walter, drew his arr
closer than ever, and pfessedupon the warn
rosy lips Of his beautiful felscw traveller
glowing, burning, regular, East India Bonn
bay kiss, and then blusheds. himself at th
mischief he had done, and waited for tn
stage to upset or something else to happen
bat no, she had not made any resistancei o.
the contrary, he felt distinctly that she ha'
returned the kiss; the very first kiss too h
had ever pressed upon woman's lips sine
l. ,ro,,a a rort;ncr kiss to little Mary Fuller