Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-06-20
1FFERSON COUNTY, VA SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 20, 1851

them, wore away and brought at their
close parting! For he was destined to
90 as a missionary to a far-of land she
to await, in her young hearts love. his.
return.
The parting was full Of bitterness and
pain TO both. Il must do my duty"
said Marcus. Have you nothing TO
give me, 10 keep in remembrance of you.
while am gone - Il would offer you
my Bible, Max, but know its holy
truths are laid up in your heart, so will
give goa this" and cu!l Of hair drop
ped into his hand. "Blcss you, darling,
( he whispered, cit shall be priced by me
as dearly as life" She looked up. "Oh,
Mark !" she cried, chow can | give you
up ~ Gazing through tears, upon her,
he answered. 81 know not, Edith, but |
may fall in the ranks Of death on that far
off shore - "Then you will be lost to
me-" murmured the weeping girl. "lt
the soul was not immortal - he said, "if
there was no awakening from the sleep
of death no bright heaven beyond the
stars then indeed might we be lost to
eacn o'her forever bul we know 'ha'
our ReGeemer lives - and folding her TO
his bosom, he pressed last kiss on her
pale cheek and was gone
But, strange 10 say, though a6sen' so
long, he had never written and now, Tor
months, Edith had come to think him
IaISe. NO wonder her voice rings out so
mourninIy tonight. "Mark Mark .
how | loved you how | trusted you, as
| can never trust again you, who | deem
ed so noble, good and true. Now /
dreamed Of Q lowing future, peaceful
pathway, Oh ! so btcst, which our feet
would tread together, you guiding ne by
your earnest spiritual life 10 a home III
heaven" And she burst il to tears.
But the lreacherv Of Mark was not
her ONLY grief. A week before that her
father had said, Edith, nv child, Louis
Vernon has asked Of me your hand"
And hen she had answered, II will stay
with YOU, faher, while | live. | esteem
Louis but Io NOT love him." he had re-
nlied. Edith. must tell vou all must
tell you that am bankrupt that
" i'll be ruined unless yOu marry him
lie is wealthy, he will save me-" Then
Edith had started TO her feet. ~ will
brave poverty" she had cried, seven
death itself for you, father only spare
me this trial. My love is buried in IIv-
ing tomb. Though Mark was false, |
love him still" A palIor, like that of
death, had spread over the Old mans face
lie did not tell her, that wheB he saw his
ruin, he had intercepted her letters. But
he did say in a hoarse voice, Il will be
ruined, Edith my honor, peace, all lost!
And when you see your old father, CROP
ing about IL prison-ceR, the snow of
sixty years resting upon hls head, remem-
Der you could have spared him THIS bitter
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