The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-15

| you are faint"
"No; my brow is hot. Batbo it. /
entreat you"
She hesitated q minute; then came up,
and laid her hand, With it's cool con.
tents; upon my brow
That's pleasant," Tsaid "Are they
coming2'
Eyes, Tsce them now" she replied
"It was your brother, then, who-but
I didn't know you had q brother"
Gle is at home from college, SIR"
I now heard steps running, and q
bright, handsome youth painting mp, in-
coherently expressing his delight that
/ was still alive. Then the surgeon
came, who felt my bones, and found
them unbroken
"Only a Aesh wound" said he
very weak from loss Of blood, that's
ALL slight infamation-no danger; must
be well nurso1, though"
Then a consultation in low tones
took place, after which the youth came
towards me aud begged to know If 7
would go to his fathers cottage until Z
was convalescent-and L grown rapidly
dizzy and i'll, nodded a consent, where
upon Harry, for so Mary called him,
ran OF to procure litter to convey me,
and the surgeon brought out his instru-
ments and proceeded to the extraction
Of the bullet, and the dressing Of the
wound.
A seml-unconsciousness accompanied
and followed all this; but a pale agita-
ted, sweet face would at moments sud
denly fash upon my senses, and I
had dreaming consciousness of ten
der hands lifting my head, and gentle
fingers pressing upon my brow.
Fever and light-headedness lasted
for some hours; but these ailments
passed away, and found me domiciled
in Mr.. Coles cottage, with Mary for
nurse, and Love for a physician
I got we'll too fast. I was soon
walking about with my arm in a sling,
and quite capable Of going anywhere
in fact, disarmed Of every excuse for
remaining Mr. Coles guest. But how
think Of tearing myself away from the
most blissful existence I had ever
known Mary's society had become a
necessity to me. When she was pres
ent, sunshine rested everywhere; when
she was gone, cloud darkenod the
world.
I felt, too, great hope of winning her.
I was certainly not Indifferent to her;
. could detect a thousand things that
made that evident, and who knew but
that down in her heart there smothered
the fame which one word from mo would
make a open blaze?
We walked together, and with Henry
as a third, rode and sailed together; but
still as nurse and patient (for I held to
the bandages and to the privileges of
illness with persistent tenacity) The
mock antagonism, the sympathy hidden
and yet revealed under abrupt words
the condolences sallying out and re-
treating by whimsical turns-the con-
test Of wit and will-what was all this
but skirmishing on the brink of that
great fowery depth which we call LoveI
4 "Mary, said /, one day to her, "my
arm is painful; the wound should be
dressed"
"Pshawl dressed it only an hour
ago"
S"Tben you did it badly, said I.
"Why should 1 try again, then2' she
asked
because it was carelessnoss," re-
plied-"not ignorance"
"But your arm, suspect, is as well
as mine, said she. "You are cheating
me-"
"That's a vile charge But come and
see how badly the work was done"
She comes, and says, 1T is perfect
DR.. Elton could not do it better"
My well arm steals around her waist.
She starts. / hold her tightly She
looks down into my face, and then sud-
denly away; but my arm rests there un-
resisted
81 have never told you, Mary, how I
came to be wounded, nor the cause.
"The causel" said she. Wasn't it
, an accident"
ono, " Ireplied 'jealousy."
jealousy" A slight movement, as
, if to escape.
, "And Of you" said I,
"Of me?' A quick, sharp glance
+ backward; an effort to escape; then
looking eyes, but calm and still.
"Shall ] tell You the story2" / asked.
A low, soft, husky eyes" tell it
with my other hand wandering up, rest
j ing upon her neck, and playing with a
curl. When / cease, perfect silence en-
q sues.
"What do you say to it, Mary2"
, "You we're punished for bad passions" "
''But mean jealousy went hand in
hand with noble love"
A bound, then, but caught her with
= my two arms. Oh, the eotasy of "Hea, ?
D when it breathes accepted lovel
p "Hallol BY Jupiter" We stand IN
confusion aud bushes before Master
e Harry.
s "What the dickens is this2" said he.
/ "Hush" said I, going over to him,
- and seizing his hand. "She's mine,
+ Harry; she loves 0
Harry cut me short with a tremon-
dous whistle Then he threw up his
J. car TO the ceiling. Then he shouted
hurrahl with an his might, aud, running
!, up to his sister, end caught her blushing
a face ia his two hands, and kissed her
checks dozon times. And then.
shall not recount al bis eEtravagau4
] ces nor mine.
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