True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-03-18

for the old lady had laid down her knit
ting.
i" No my child" and she removed her
spectacles and wiped her eyes. But
The rest is sad story, and I musthurry
over it.
~ don't know exactly how it happen
ed, but that winter Lucy's father got in
TO terrible law suit With Squire Wheel
er. There was some flaw in the title.
and people said it was plain that the old
man must let the homestead 60.
They said TOO, he'd never survive it;
and better, perhaps, he never had, than
kept it as he did. But one day squire
Wheeler, to all the neighborhood's as
tonishmeEt, rode over to the farm.
What he did there was never exact.
ly known, but in little while it was ru-
mored that the suit was Withdrawn, and
come spring, Lucy Reid was to be mar
ried TO Stillman Wheeler. And so it was.
One bright March day she went into the
old Church yonder and gave herself to
him.
+ He was good looking man, but moi
over smart, the neighbors whispered; and
t | always thought it was his money more
than anything else, that kept him up
n d" But Justin, Grandma Deane-what
$ became Of Justin ?"
! "There is dark look about the whole
d matter. Lucy was made the victim Of
VI some terrible faIsehood. never blamed
her father, for The thought of losing the
. homestead seemed completely 20 shattel
: him, ,,,,.--,...,.,.,,.....-,.-.. ..s..s ,...
= "I only know that Squire Wheeler and
: his son were at the bottom of it, and thai
Lucy Reid went 10 the altar believing that
Justin Keep had been false to her."
> Dear me how dreadful! Did he
= ever come back?'
&" Yes, the next May. Lucy had been
" a wife two months. lie had not heard Of
her marriage. She was at home, visiting
v her father When she met him at the
u door. she fell down like one stricken with
. a fit.
e "But he carried her into the house, ant
g there they learned all. Both had beer
deceived"
e at was terrible scene that old from
!; room witnessed. Justin swore terrible
II oath of vengeance and it was not till
e with clasped hands and streaming eyes
II the young wife kneeled to the only mar
u she ever loved, and pleaded for the lifi
e of her husband, that he promised for he
IS sake TO spare him.
Z" But from the day of Justin's visit
a Lucy Wheeler was changed woman
X All the light and gladness of her being
u seemed dead in her, and she moved
about her house, pale and quiet, with {
il look of paien, suffering in her once sunny
le eyes, that mademy heart ache to behold
ii And her husband Did she ever tel
* him what she had learned?"
T. Il think not. His father and Lucy
died in less than two years after the mar
y riage. The Squire was much less veal
;" thy than people supposed. The mex
iS spring, Lucy and her husband remove,
ID west, and somehow people lost sight 0
them" w
y "And Justin ?"
!" Z" You know the rest, my child H
rs became moody, unhappy man askin
no sympathy and giving none, But h
', was always smart at bargain, and in
III few years laid up enough to buy out Dea
an con Platt's farm, when his son moved I
the south. .iF. 8
s Ever since he has added acres 10 hi
nu lands, and hundreds TO the banks; bu
e. for all that, he's q man soured 10 all h
ar race-a man who was never known
give little child smile, or a beggar
ler crust of bread l have sometimes thougl
Ter his heart was like great desert, withor
u a tree 10 shade or a stream to gladden.
And yet it bore bright blossom ouct
nS and believe me children, for il is Il
'er word Of an old woman, who has seen al
'N- known much of the ways Of man, it
SO always. The heart may be gre
lOr wilderness, but IN some Of us byr,ca!
ne there has grO,Cn a JFosOer.
ne Cora and looked at each other and
ey Uncle Charley. Just then Aunt Mi
ON came in, She had been out, and had i
Z heard Of Grandma Deans visit. St
n'I But Cora stole up to her uncle, q